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
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
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.
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]
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]
Editor: The Best American Science Writing 2009, 2009, ISBN9780061431661 Paperback
Author: Woman: An Intimate Geography, Revised and Updated Edition, 2014, ISBN1844089908 Paperback
Articles
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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^ abc"Natalie Angier". The Santa Fe Science Writing Workshop. Archived from the original on September 2, 2018. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
^ ab"(untitled)". The American Heritage Dictionairy of the English Language. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Archived from the original on November 2, 2017. Retrieved November 2, 2017.
^"1992 Large Newspaper". Science Journalism Awards. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Archived from the original on January 28, 2019. Retrieved January 28, 2019.
^"Congratulations to the Class of 2009". Jay Connected. Washington & Jefferson College, Office of Alumni Relations. Archived from the original on January 29, 2019. Retrieved January 29, 2019.
