From the New York Times obits: Sharon Begley, a Top Science Journalist, Is Dead at 64
Long at Newsweek, she was regarded as one of her generation’s pre-eminent science writers. An “Enlightenment-era figure,” Jon Meacham said.
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Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, wrote on Twitter that Ms. Begley would be “long remembered for making the most complex science stories both exciting and accessible.”
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My favorite science writer is Mary Roach, whose books are laced with incredible wit and humor. I never had the pleasure of reading Sharon Begley, but now I want to.
Science writing as a genre is highly underrated, and there’s an element of heroism about it that I admire very much. During the science-unfriendly Trump administration, honest, courageous journalists and scientists did so much to raise awareness about issues that politicians would rather ignore.