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Daniel Koshland
Editor in Chief of
Science
1985 to 1995
Creator of
Dr Noitall |
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While in the midst of recasting biological science at the
University of California, Berkeley, Professor Daniel Koshland was offered the
editor-in-chief's position at the scientific weekly journal of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, Science, which, according
to Joseph Goldstein, the 1985 Nobel Laureate in Medicine or Physiology was "a
good, but stodgy, journal."
During his decade's stewardship Daniel Koshland transformed Science
into the primary voice of science in the United States ‒
which it has continued to be during the tenures of his successors in the
position.
As a result, Science is a significant influence on
public policy.
While editor in chief, Professor Koshland contributed on average some twenty
editorials per year, and beginning in 1989, he wrote nearly thirty which
involved the hyper-egotistical Dr Noitall as his foil.
A pungent example written for the March 23, 1990 issue of Science is a
prime example and seems as pertinent today as when it was written almost a
quarter of a century ago.
Alex Reisner
Editor, The Funneled Web