Gina Kolata

Gina Kolata, born in Bari ( born February 25, 1948 in Baltimore) is an American science journalist.

She is the daughter of the mathematician Ruth Aaronson Bari ( 1917-2005 ). Kolata studied molecular biology at the University of Maryland ( bachelor's degree, she studied the later half years on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and received her master's degree in Applied Mathematics at the University of Maryland.

Since 1973, she was with science and wrote articles since 1974 (particularly on mathematics and biology). In 1987 she moved to the New York Times. She has published several books, including about cloning, the Spanish flu, the weight loss and fitness programs. She teaches at Princeton University (from 1996 McGraw Professor ) and at Yale University.

She is the sister of the environmental activist Judi Bari ( 1949-1997 ).

Writings

• The cloned life. A century experiment changed the future of man, Diana Verlag 1997 (English original: Clone: The Road to Dolly and the Path Ahead, William Morrow and Company, 1998), ISBN 978-3828450059
• Influenza, Fischer ( S. ) 2001, Fischer ( Tb ) 2006 ( English original: Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus Caused It did, Straus and Giroux in 1999, Touchstone, 2001), ISBN 978-3100383204
• Sex in America: A Definitive Survey, Little Brown and Company, 1994, ISBN 0-316-07524-8 ( out of print )
• The Baby Doctors: Probing the Limits of Fetal Medicine, Dell, 1991, ISBN 0-440-21011-9
• Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise, Straus and Giroux 2001, ISBN 0-374-20477-2