Carl Zimmer
- January 4, 2024
- Blogger
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Carl Zimmer |
| Occupation | Blogger |
| Date Of Birth | Jul 13, 1966(1966-07-13) |
| Age | 58 |
| Birthplace | New Haven |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Connecticut |
| Horoscope | Cancer |
Carl Zimmer Biography
| Name | Carl Zimmer |
| Birthday | Jul 13 |
| Birth Year | 1966 |
| Place Of Birth | New Haven |
| Home Town | Connecticut |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Cancer |
| Parents | Dick Zimmer |
| Siblings | Ben Zimmer |
| Spouse | Grace Farrell Zimmer |
Carl Zimmer is one of the most popular and richest Blogger who was born on July 13, 1966 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Blogger, science writer, journalist, who is well-known for his articles in The New York Times and National Geographic. He is a Yale University fellow and writes about genetics and evolution.
In 2016, he was presented with the He was awarded the Stephen Jay Gould Prize in 2016 from the Society for the Study of Evolution. prize by the Society for the Study of Evolution.
Zimmer received his B.A. in English from Yale University in 1987. In 1989, he started his career at Discover magazine, first as a copy editor and fact checker, eventually serving as a senior editor from 1994 to 1998. Zimmer left Discover after ten years to focus on books and other projects. In 2004, he started a blog called “The Loom”, in which he wrote about topics related to his books, but later expanded it into what he terms “a place where I could write about things I might not be turning into an article for a magazine, but were really interesting”. The Loom has been hosted by Discover and National Geographic for many years, and was invited to be part of Scienceblogs in the past. It has been transferred to Zimmer’s personal website in 2018. As of 2013, Zimmer writes a weekly column called Matter in The New York Times. Zimmer and the STAT project team have put out “Game of Genomes,” a 13-part series that enlisted two dozen scientists, with the goal of exploring Zimmer’s own genome.
Zimmer describes his journalistic beat as “life” or “what it means to be alive.” He is also the only science writer to have a species of tapeworm named after him (Acanthobothrium zimmeri). Zimmer lives with his wife Grace Farrell Zimmer and their two children, Charlotte and Veronica, in Guilford, Connecticut. Carl Zimmer’s father is Dick Zimmer, a Republican politician from New Jersey, who was a member of U.S. House of Representatives from 1991 to 1997.
He is the father of Charlotte and Veronica, his two daughters.
Carl Zimmer Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Blogger |
| House | Living in own house. |
Carl Zimmer is one of the richest Blogger from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Carl Zimmer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Yale University awarded him his BA. He began his career as a writer for Discover Magazine. In 2013, he became well-known when he started writing the column Matter for The New York Times.
In 2017, he was presented with the Online News Association’s Online Journalism Award for his explanatory reporting.
Carl Zimmer (born 1966) is a popular science writer, blogger, columnist, and journalist who specializes in the topics of evolution, parasites, and heredity. He is the author of many books and contributes science essays to publications such as The New York Times, Discover, and National Geographic. He is a fellow at Yale University’s Morse College and adjunct professor of Molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University. Besides his popular science writing, Zimmer also gives frequent lectures, and has appeared on many radio shows, including National Public Radio’s Radiolab, Fresh Air and This American Life.
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In his keynote talk at The Rockefeller University on 6 September 2017, he noted that democracy, science and journalism are “three valuable institutions that have made life…far better than it would have been without them.” He stated however that we should not take it for granted that they are free from corruption, and urged to keep them that way. Specifically, he stated that “We can look back through history and see how in different places and in different times, each of these pillars cracked and sometimes fell. We should not be smug, when we look back at these episodes. We should not be so arrogant, as to believe that we are so much smarter or nobler that we’re somehow immune from this disasters.” Zimmer is critical of politicians negative influence on science. Specifically, he is critical of Trump’s anti-science stance, specifically his denial of human-caused climate change. Similarly, he is critical of Trump’s appointment of science-deniers to lead crucial US environmental agencies, such as National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Energy. Zimmer is also critical of Putin’s influence on Russian science, specifically Putin’s “friendly take-over” of a Russian science magazine, Putin being the “hands-off chairman” of the Russian Geographic Society.
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