Gina Kolata

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1. Richard Preston

   Author of The Hot Zone, The Cobra Event, The Demon in the Freezer

2. Laurie Garrett

   Author of The Coming Plague, Betrayal of Trust

3. John M. Barry

   Author of The Great Influenza, Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America

4. Simon Winchester

   Author of Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883, A Crack in the Edge of the World

5. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

6. Natalie Angier

   Author of The Canon, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2002, The Best American Science Writing 2009

7. Dava Sobel

   Author of Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, The Best American Science Writing 2004

8. Gina Kolata

   Author of Flu: The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus That Caused It, Rethinking Thin: The New Science of Weight Loss--and the Myths and Realities of Dieting, Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Health and Exercise

9. Oliver Sacks

   Author of The Island of the Colorblind and Cycad Island, The Best American Science Writing 2003

10. Atul Gawande

    Author of Better, The Best American Science Writing 2006

11. William H. McNeill

    Author of Plagues and Peoples

12. Norman F. Cantor

    Author of In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death and the World It Made

13. John Kelly

    Author of The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time

14. Richard Rhodes

    Author of Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague

15. Steven Berlin Johnson

    Author of The Ghost Map

16. Richard Dawkins

    Author of The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2003

17. Jerome Groopman

    Author of How Doctors Think, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008

18. Carl Zimmer

    Author of Parasite Rex : Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures, Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea

19. J. l. Carrell

    Author of The Speckled Monster

20. Matt Ridley

    Author of Genome, The Best American Science Writing 2002