Natalie Angier

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Natalie Angier
Born (1958-02-16) February 16, 1958 (age 68)
New York City, U.S.
OccupationScience writer
EmployerThe New York Times
Known forScience articles and books
Notable workWoman: An Intimate Geography, 1999;
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, 2007
SpouseRick Weiss
ChildrenKatherine Weiss Angier
Parents
  • Keith Angier (father)
  • Adele Angier, née Rosenthal (mother)
AwardsPulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, 1991

Natalie Angier (/ænˈdʒɪər/)[1] (born February 16, 1958[2] in the Bronx,[3] New York City) is an American nonfiction writer and a science journalist for The New York Times.[2] Her awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991[2] and the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in 1992.[4] She is also noted for her public identification as an atheist and received the Freedom from Religion Foundation's Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003.[5]

Early life

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Angier was born in the Bronx,[3] New York City, on February 16, 1958, to Keith Angier and Adele Angier, née Rosenthal.[6] She was raised in the Bronx and New Buffalo, Michigan.[7]

Education

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Angier began her college studies at age 16 at the University of Michigan.[3] After completing two years at the University of Michigan, she studied English, physics, and astronomy at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude[6] in 1978.[2] She also studied medieval literature, post graduation.[3]

Career

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Angier began her writing career as a technical writer for Texas Instruments.[3] She was then hired as a founding staff member of Discover Magazine in 1980 and largely wrote about evolutionary biology and animal behavior during her four years there.[3][8] After Discover, she worked as a senior science writer for Time Magazine; as an editor at the women's magazine, Savvy (now defunct); and as a professor at the New York University's Graduate Program in Science and Environmental Reporting.[7]

In 1990, Angier joined The New York Times as a science writer and remains on staff.[7] She won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991[7] and the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in 1992.,[4] among many other awards detailed in the Awards and honors section below.

Her writing has appeared in print and on-line magazines: The American Scholar, The Atlantic, GEO, National Geographic, O magazine, Parade, Slate, Smithsonian, Washington Monthly, among others.[7] Angier's books and anthology contributions are detailed in the Books section below.

Angier is a voting member of the usage panel of The American Heritage Dictionary.[7][9]

Philosophical views

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Angier first publicly described herself as an atheist in 2001:[5]

So, I'll out myself. I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don't believe in life after death, channeled chat rooms with the dead, reincarnation, telekinesis or any miracles but the miracle of life and consciousness, which again strike me as miracles in nearly obscene abundance. I believe that the universe abides by the laws of physics, some of which are known, others of which will surely be discovered, but even if they aren't, that will simply be a result, as my colleague George Johnson put it, of our brains having evolved for life on this one little planet and thus being inevitably limited. I'm convinced that the world as we see it was shaped by the again genuinely miraculous, let's even say transcendent, hand of evolution through natural selection.

— Natalie Angier, "Confessions of a Lonely Atheist", New York Times Sunday Magazine (January 14, 2001)[10]

This, in part, is why Angier was presented with the Freedom from Religion Foundation's Emperor Has No Clothes Award in 2003.[11]

Personal life

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Angier married Rick Weiss on July 27, 1991.[12] Rick Weiss is a former science reporter for The Washington Post.[13] Angier and Weiss live in Takoma Park, Maryland[11] and have a daughter, Katherine Weiss Angier,[8] who graduated summa cum laude in 2018 from Princeton with a degree in Biology.[14]

Awards and honors

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Books

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  • Author: Natural Obsessions: Striving to Unlock the Deepest Secrets of the Cancer Cell, 1988, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1999 Paperback
  • Contributor: New Science Journalists, 1995, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Author: The Beauty of the Beastly: New Views on the Nature of Life, 1995, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 1996 Paperback
  • Author: Woman: An Intimate Geography, 1999, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). 2014 Paperback
  • Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2000, 2000, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2001, 2001, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2002, 2002, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Editor: The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, 2002, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Contributor: The Bitch in the House: 26 Women Tell the Truth About Sex, Solitude, Work, Motherhood, and Marriage, 2002, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Contributor: When Race Becomes Real: Black and White Writers Confront Their Personal Histories, 2002, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Hardcover
  • Contributor: Sisterhood Is Forever: The Women's Anthology for a New Millennium, 2003, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2003, 2003, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2005, 2005, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Contributor: The Best American Science Writing 2005, 2005, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Contributor: Axelrod & Cooper's Concise Guide to Writing, 4th Edition, 2006, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Author: The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, 2007, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Editor: The Best American Science Writing 2009, 2009, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback
  • Author: Woman: An Intimate Geography, Revised and Updated Edition, 2014, Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). Paperback

Articles

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  • Author: "Not Milk?" (review of Anne Mendelson, Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood, Columbia University Press, 2023, 396 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXX, no. 16 (19 October 2023), pp. 36, 38–39. "[Americans'] consumption of cow's milk [...] peak[ed in] 1945, when [they] drank an average of forty-five gallons apiece. By 2001 the nation's per capita milk intake had been cut in half, to twenty-three gallons, and in 2021 the figure was down to just sixteen gallons of milk per person, or 5.6 ounces a day... Leading the... drop-off are members of Generation Z: people born after 1996... Among the eco-conscious, antipathy toward dairy milk is great enough that some high-end coffee shops feel no obligation to offer it at all." (p. 36.)
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