Natalie Angier

Natalie Angier studied at Barnard College and University of Michigan. The recorded working language is American English and English. Residence is recorded at Takoma Park. Employment is recorded with The New York Times Company. Works named in the authority record are Natural Obsessions and The Canon. Distinctions recorded are Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, Emperor Has No Clothes Award, Robert B. Balles Prize in Critical Thinking and Women in Technology Hall of Fame.

• Name — Natalie Angier • Born — 16 February 1958 • Birthplace — New York City, U.S. • Occupation — Science writer • Employer — The New York Times • Known for — Science articles and books • Spouse — Rick Weiss • Children — Katherine Weiss Angier • Mother — Adele Angier, née Rosenthal • Father — Keith Angier • Awards — Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting, 1991

Angier was born in the Bronx, New York City, on February 16, 1958, to Keith Angier and Adele Angier, née Rosenthal. She had three siblings and credits her parents with granting her a deep respect for books from an early age. She was raised in the Bronx and New Buffalo, Michigan.

Angier began her college studies at age 16 at the University of Michigan. After completing two years at the University of Michigan, she studied English, physics, and astronomy at Barnard College, where she graduated magna cum laude in 1978. She also studied medieval literature, post graduation.

Angier began her writing career as a technical writer for Texas Instruments. She was then hired as a founding staff member of Discover Magazine in 1980 and largely wrote about evolutionary biology and animal behavior during her four years there. After Discover, she worked as a senior science writer for Time Magazine; as an editor at the women's magazine, Savvy (now defunct); and as a professor at the New York University's Graduate Program in Science and Environmental Reporting. In 1990, Angier joined The New York Times as a science writer and remains on staff. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting in 1991 and the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in 1992. Her writing has appeared in print and on-line magazines: The American Scholar, The Atlantic, GEO, National Geographic, O magazine, Parade, Slate, Smithsonian, Washington Monthly, among others. Angier's books and anthology contributions are detailed in the Books section below. Angier is a voting member of the usage panel of The American Heritage Dictionary.

Angier married Rick Weiss on July 27, 1991. Rick Weiss is a former science reporter for The Washington Post. Angier and Weiss live in Takoma Park, Maryland and have a daughter, Katherine Weiss Angier, who graduated summa cum laude in 2018 from Princeton with a degree in Biology.

• Author: "Not Milk?" (review of Anne Mendelson, Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood, Columbia University Press, 2023, 396 pp.), The New York Review of Books, vol. LXX, no. 16 (19 October 2023), pp. 36, 38–39. "[Americans'] consumption of cow's milk [...] peak[ed in] 1945, when [they] drank an average of forty-five gallons apiece. By 2001 the nation's per capita milk intake had been cut in half, to twenty-three gallons, and in 2021 the figure was down to just sixteen gallons of milk per person, or 5.6 ounces a day... Leading the... drop-off are members of Generation Z: people born after 1996... Among the eco-conscious, antipathy toward dairy milk is great enough that some high-end coffee shops feel no obligation to offer it at all." (p. 36.)