New Haven (USA), 1966

Zimmer is one of the most important scientific disseminators of today. He started writing about science in Discover magazine, and has since written 13 books on biology, medicine, and neuroscience. He is currently the author of one of the most prestigious science blogs, The Loom. Since 2013, he is a columnist in the New York Times, where he writes weekly about science, and regularly collaborates with publications such as National Geographic, Wired, Scientific American, Science, Popular Science and Discover, and with various radio programs such as Radiolab and This American Life.

His lectures on evolution and on the strange world of the smallest creatures, viruses and parasites, protagonists of several of his works, are especially well known. Zimmer has proven to be an excellent explorer of the frontiers of science, where scientists attempt to expand our knowledge of the world. All of this has earned him numerous awards throughout his career, such as the National Academies Science Communication Award (2007) and the Stephen Jay Gould Prize (2016), an award given by The Society for the Study of Evolution, in recognition of the continuous effort for making evolutionary biology more understandable to the general public. His influence is such that he is the only writer with whose name a kind of tapeworm has been baptized.