Walter S. Sullivan

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Walter Seager Sulilvan Jr (born January 18, 1918, died March 19, 1996) was considered the "Dean" of Science Writers.^[1] Sullivan spent most of his career as a science reporter for the New York Times. Over a 50 year career he covered all aspects of science: Antarctic expedictions, rocket launchings in the late 1950s, physics, chemistry, and geology. He wrote several well-received books including Assault on the Unknown about the geophysical year; We are not alone, a bestseller about the search for extra-terrestrial intelligence; Continents in Motion; Black Holes: the Edge of the Space, the End of Time; and Landprints. Sullivan won nearly every award open to a science journalist: the Daly Medal of the American Geographical Society, the George Polk Award, the Distinguished Public Service Award of the National Science Foundation, the AIP Science writing award; the James T. Grady-James H. Stack Award for Interpreting Chemistry for the Public from the American Chemical Society and the American Association of for the Advancement of Science. Sullivan was most proud the Public Service Medal of the National Academy of Sciences, which made him a non-voting memober of that body. The American Geophysical Union named its science journalism award after Sullivan.^[2]

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