Sharon bertsch mcgrayne biography
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EDUCATION:
Swarthmore College, BA with Honors.
NEWSPAPER REPORTER
Prize-winning reporter for 15 years for Scripps-Howard, Gannett, Crain’s, and other newspapers in New Jersey, Michigan, and Tennessee. Specializing in in-depth reporting of difficult issues, I covered education, business, taxation, labor, municipal and state governments, science, and health.
FREELANCE SCIENCE WRITER/EDITOR for ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA
Co-author of updated “The Atom and Nucleus” for Encyclopaedia Britannica, February, 2001. With George F. Bertsch.
Co-author of "The Atom," Reprinted in the Encyclopaedia Britannica's 1990 Yearbook Of Science and the Future. With George F. Bertsch
Co-author of "Electricity and Magnetism," 30-page article in 1990+ editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica. With Edwin Kashy, physics professor at Michigan State University.
Co-author of "The Atom," 23-page article in the 1989+ editions of Encyclopaedia Britannica. This article was reprinted in the Britannica's 199
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Sharon Bertsch McGrayne is the author of highly-praised books about scientific discoveries and the scientists who make them. She is interested in exploring the cutting-edge connection between social issues and scientific progress – and in making the science clear and interesting to non-specialists. Thus, her first book dealt with changing patterns of discrimination faced by leading women scientists during the 20th century. Her second book portrayed a group of chemists and the interplay between science, the chemical industry, the public’s love of creature comforts, and the environment. Her latest book tells how an 18th century approach to assessing evidence was ignored for much of the 20th century before – in an overnight sea change – it permeated our modern lives.
McGrayne is now working on a book with Rita Colwell, former director of the National Science Foundation. Its working title is:
What I Really Think
by Rita Colwell
with Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
McGrayne's work has bee
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I write books about the history of scientific discoveries and the scientists who make them. inom like to explore the cutting-edge connection between social issues and scientific progress – and man the science clear and interesting to non-specialists. Thus, my latest book tells about Bayes' rule, how an 18th century approach to assessing evidence was ignored for much of the 20th century before – in an overnight sea change – it permeated our modern lives. The book, called The Theory That Would Not Die, got a full-page review in the New York Times Book Review, which was a really big deal for me. My first book, still in print at the National Academy of Sciences after 23 years, dealt with changing patterns of discrimination faced bygd leading women scientists during the 20th century. My second book portrayed a group of chemists and the interplay between science, the chemical industry, the public’s love of creature comforts, and the environment.
I am now working on a book with Dr. Rita Colw