Amanda Gefter
{{Short description|American science writer}}
Amanda Gefter (born 16 August 1980) is an American science writer, noteworthy for her 2014 book Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn.{{cite book|author=Gefter, Amanda|title=Trespassing on Einstein's lawn : a father, a daughter, the meaning of nothing, and the beginning of everything|location=New York|publisher=Bantam Books|year=2014|isbn=9780345539632 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NUMkAAAAQBAJ}}{{cite journal|author=Orzel, Chad|authorlink=Chad Orzel|title=Review of Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything by Amanda Gefter|journal=Physics Today|date=May 2014|volume=67|issue=5|pages=52–53|doi=10.1063/PT.3.2385|doi-access=free}}{{cite journal|author=Dihal, Kanta|title=Review of Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn|journal=The Oxonian Review|date=19 January 2015|url=http://oxonianreview.org/wp/mind-over-mathematics/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150123051702/http://www.oxonianreview.org/wp/mind-over-mathematics|url-status=usurped|archive-date=January 23, 2015}} The book won Physics World's 2015 book of the year award.{{cite journal|title=Quest to understand 'nothing' wins Physics World's 2015 Book of the Year|journal=Physics World|date=15 December 2015|url=http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2015/dec/15/quest-to-understand-nothing-wins-physics-worlds-2015-book-of-the-year}}
Education and career
Amanda Gefter has a master's degree in the Philosophy and History of Science from the London School of Economics. For the academic year 2012–2013 she was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
Her articles, specializing in cosmology and fundamental physics, have been published in The New York Times, Nautilus, New Scientist, Scientific American, Nature, Sky and Telescope, and several other journals. She is a former co-director of the collaborative group NeuWrite Boston and a current co-host, with science journalist Dan Falk, of BookLab, a podcast about popular science books.{{cite web|title=Amanda Gefter, science writer|url=http://www.amandagefter.com/bio}}
Personal life
The pattern of Amanda Gefter's life has been influenced by an inherited circadian rhythm disorder called delayed sleep phase syndrome.{{cite news|author=Gefter, Amanda|title=The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy|newspaper=The New York Times|date=23 December 2016|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/23/style/modern-love-dating-sleep-disorder.html}} (See The Day Boy and the Night Girl by George MacDonald.) She married Justin Smith in July 2017. Their relationship was dramatized in the Modern Love episode "The Night Girl Finds a Day Boy."{{Cite news|last=Lee|first=Miya|date=2021-08-13|title=Stuck in Different Time Zones While Living Two Subway Stops Apart|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/style/modern-love-episode-2-amanda-gefter.html|access-date=2021-08-20|issn=0362-4331}}
Awards
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Kavli Science Journalism Award, 2015 for "The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic," Nautilus Magazine{{cite web|title=AAAS Kavli Winners 2015|url=https://sjawards.aaas.org/awards/field_award_category/magazine-3/field_award_year/2015-83}}
References
{{reflist}}
External links
{{wikiquote}}
- [http://booklabpodcast.com BookLab podcast]
- [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOwSoAC2tEs Amanda Gefter, "Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn" | Talks at Google, YouTube, 9 December 2014]
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Gefter, Amanda}}
Category:American science journalists
Category:American women journalists
Category:American women writers