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Deborah Blum

American journalist · United States · On the map · Journalists · Born 1954 · age 72

Deborah Leigh Blum is an American science journalist, and the director of the Knight Science Journalism program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Deborah Blum is read about 15 times a day, in 9 languages.

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2015James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting ChemistryAward2009Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of ScienceAward1992Science Journalism Award - Large NewspapersAward1954Born19 October 1954

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James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry2015
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2009
Science Journalism Award - Large Newspapers1992

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She is the author of several books, including The Poisoner's Handbook (2010) and The Poison Squad (2018), and has been a columnist for The New York Times and a blogger, via her blog titled Elemental, for Wired.

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Born 1954 · age 72

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