Gina Kolata (born in Baltimore, Maryland, February 25, 1948) is a science journalist for The New York Times. Events 138 - The Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, effectively making him his successor Year 1948 ( MCMXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Thursday (link will display the 1948 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A science journalist (or science writer) is a Journalist who specializes in writing about Science topics and thus practices Science journalism Her sister was the environmental activist Judi Bari, and her mother was the mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari. Judi Bari ( November 7, 1949 &ndash March 2, 1997) was an American Environmentalist and labor leader a Ruth Aaronson Bari ( November 17, 1917 - August 25, 2005) was an American mathematician known for her work in Graph theory and
Kolata studied molecular biology as a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and received a master's degree in mathematics from the University of Maryland. The University of Maryland College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland UMD, UMCP or simply Maryland) is a public research She started working for The New York Times in the 1980s. She is a "self-proclaimed exercise addict (who thinks nothing of a 100-mile bike ride as a reward)" according to a Times advertisement for itself. [1]
Books
- Clone: The Road to Dolly, and the Path Ahead, ISBN 0-688-16634-2
- Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus that Caused It, ISBN 0-7432-0398-4
- Sex in America: A Definitive Survey, ISBN 0-316-07524-8 (out of print)
- The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine, ISBN 0-440-21011-9 (out of print)
- Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise, ISBN 0-374-20477-2
- Rethinking thin : the new science of weight loss--and the myths and realities of dieting, ISBN 0-374-10398-4
Notes
- ^ Advertising supplement (with no title, but part of the "These Times Demand the Times" advertising campaign, as noted on the supplement's back page) to The New York Times, October 31, 2006, page ZK7 of the supplement
External links
- Recent and archived news articles by Gina Kolata of The New York Times. Out of print refers to an item typically a book (see Out of print books) but can include any print or visual media or Sound recording, that is no longer being published Events 445 BC – Ezra reads the Book of the Law to the Israelites in Jerusalem (see Nehemiah 91 NLTse Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.
- Sourcewatch article on Gina Kolata
- Rethinking Thin by Gina Kolata, Official Book site