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John Noble Wilford (born October 4, 1933) is an author and award-winning journalist for ''The New York Times''. ==Biography== Wilford was born October 4, 1933, in Murray, Kentucky, and attended Grove High School across the border in nearby Paris, Tennessee.〔 After high school graduation, he attended Lambuth College for a year, then in fall 1952 transferred to the University of Tennessee (UT).〔 He received a B.S. in journalism from UT in 1955 and an M.A. in political science from Syracuse University.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Noble Wilford )〕 After graduation from Syracuse, Wilford spent two years with the U.S. Army in West Germany.〔 Wilford's professional career began in 1956 at the ''Wall Street Journal'', where he was a general assignment reporter and (after a two-year military tour of duty) a medical reporter.〔 In 1962, he joined ''Time'' to work as a contributing science editor, then moved in 1965 to ''The New York Times'' to be a science reporter.〔 While at the ''NYT'' he also worked as assistant national news editor (1973–1975) and director of science news (1975–1979). In 1969 he wrote the New York Times front-page article about man's first walk on the moon. His was the only byline on the front page, beneath the headline "Men Walk On Moon" and under the subheading "A Powdery Surface is Closely Explored." Upon the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Wilford's article was lauded by journalist Stephen Dubner, co-author of ''Freakonomics'', who emphasized Wilford's skillful use of data. For example, Wilford wrote, "Although Mr. Armstrong is known as a man of few words, his heartbeats told of his excitement upon leading man's first landing on the moon. At the time of the descent rocket ignition, his heartbeat rate registered 110 a minute—77 is normal for him—and it shot up to 156 at touchdown." Dubner argues that this is one of the most elegant uses of data to have been ever used in journalism. Forty-three years after the moon landing, it was Wilford's byline on the Times' front-page obituary of Neil Armstrong. Wilford won two Pulitzer Prizes, one in 1984 for reporting on "scientific topics of national import" and one in 1987 as part of a ''NYT'' team reporting on the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. He has also won the G.M. Loeb Achievement Award from the University of Connecticut, the National Space Club Press Award, and two awards from the Aviation-Space Writers Association.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=John Noble Wilford )〕 John Noble Wilford is also the 2008 recipient of the University of Tennessee's Hileman Distinguished Alumni Award (http://www.cci.utk.edu/hileman-award). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Noble Wilford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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