Nicholas Wade
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| Born |
May 17, 1942 Aylesbury, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater |
Eton College King's College, Cambridge |
| Occupation | Science journalist, writer |
Nicholas Wade (born May 17, 1942) was formerly a staff writer for the Science Times section of The New York Times. He is also an author, who most recently has written the controversial book, A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History.
Wade was born in Aylesbury, England and educated at Eton College. He is the grandson of teacher and author Lawrence Beesley, a survivor of RMS Titanic. He earned a BA and an MA from King's College, Cambridge in 1960 and 1963. Wade emigrated to the United States in 1970.
Wade has been a science writer and editor for the journals Nature, from 1967 to 1971, and Science, from 1972 to 1982. He joined The New York Times in 1982 and retired in 2012 but freelances occasionally for his former employer. He had been an editorial writer covering science, environment and defense, and then an editor of the science section.
Two of his books deal with less savory aspects of scientific research. His 1980 book, The Nobel Duel: Two Scientists' Twenty-one Year Race to Win the World's Most Coveted Research Prize, described the competition between Andrew Schally and Roger Guillemin, whose discoveries regarding the peptide hormone led to them sharing the 1977 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. According to the Washington Post Book World, it "may be the most unflattering description of scientists ever written." Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science (1983), co-authored with William J. Broad, discusses historical and contemporary examples of scientific fraud.
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