Stuart Firestein
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Firestein at The Amaz!ng Meeting, 2012
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| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Biology |
| Institutions | Columbia University |
| Alma mater | San Francisco State University BS in Biology, UC Berkeley PhD |
| Known for | Chairman of the Department of Biology at Columbia University, professor of neuroscience |
| Spouse | Diana Reiss |
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 Stuart Firestein: The pursuit of ignorance, (18:33), TED talks
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Ignorance: The Birthsplace of Bang: Stuart Firestein at TEDxBrussels, (16:29) |
Stuart J. Firestein, PhD, is the chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his laboratory is researching the vertebrate olfactory receptor neuron. He has published articles in Wired (magazine),Huffington Post, and Scientific American. Firestein has been elected as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his meritorious efforts to advance science. He is an adviser to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program for the Public Understanding of Science. Firestein's writing often advocates for better science writing. In 2011 he released the book Ignorance: How it Drives Science.
Firestein was raised in Philadelphia. As a child, Firestein had many interests. In an interview with a reporter for Columbia College, he described his early history. "I started out with the usual childhood things — cowboy, fireman. My first interests were in science. I wanted to be an astronomer." Firestein attended an all-boys middle school, a possible reason he became interested in theater arts, because they were able to interact with an all-girls school. Firestein worked in theater for almost 20 years in San Francisco and Los Angeles and rep companies on the East Coast. At the age of 30, Firestein enrolled in San Francisco State as a full-time student. He has credited an animal communication class with Professor Hal Markowitz as "the most important thing that happened to me in life.” Firestein received his graduate degree at age 40.
After earning his Ph.D. in neurobiology, Firestein was a researcher at Yale Medical School, then joined Columbia University in 1993.
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