Talk:Carl Zimmer

National Academies Award

Hi--

I'm completely new to the protocols of Wikipedia, but I was wondering if my entry could be amended to include an award I just won. The details are here: http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=10012007b

Best,

Carl Zimmer Cwzimmer 13:28, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

Added, with hearty congratulations! Tim Vickers 16:42, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

New Award for Carl Zimmer

Can someone a little more wiki-savvy than I update the article with info on Mr. Zimmer's newest award? The 2009 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award in the large newspaper category. http://www.aaas.org/news/releases/2009/1110sja.shtml12.157.246.142 (talk) 08:00, 11 November 2009 (UTC)

I added it to the list. I'm not sure if the Kavli Science Journalism Award is different than the Science Journalism Award he won in 2004, so I've entered as it is. If somebody knows more, it could stand to be updated. The Mink Ermine Fox (talk) 03:58, 11 January 2010 (UTC)

A few biographic items...

Hi there--

Since Wikipedia has become something of a universal CV, I wanted to take a moment to point out a few corrections and updates, if that's okay.

1. In the first paragraph of the Career section it says my most recent award was in 2007. In fact, my most recent award was in 2012--the AAAS Kavli award mentioned in the list of awards.

2. I've been a lecturer at Yale University since 2009.

3. In the Career paragraph, the location of my blog is no longer correct. My blog moved in December 2012 to National Geographic: http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/blog/the-loom/ (The link in the external links is also no longer correct)

4. I stopped doing the Meet the Science podcast in 2010.

5. In the second paragraph of the career section, there is an error: I did not start freelancing for Natural History after graduating from college. I started science writing when I joined Discover in 1989. After I left Discover in 1999, I began to write a column for Natural History and also began to write for other publications, such as National Geographic and the New York Times.

6. In my bibliography, I've published a more recent book: Evolution: Making Sense of Life (2012), co-authored with Douglas Emlen ISBN: 1936221179

Many thanks! --Carl Zimmer

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Cwzimmer (talk • contribs) 22:50, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

Corrections made. Tim Vickers (talk) 03:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Bibliography

I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 06:16, 10 July 2015 (UTC)

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Page rewrite

Hi editors,

I aim at expanding the page of Carl Zimmer and for doing so, I will eventually work on it in my sandbox for some time. To not double anybodies work, please make me aware of any such effort presently going on. If you come across anything you want to include onto his page, please let me know here and I will include it, or please wait a couple of weeks that I make my edits live. I hope this is fine with you all, and thank you for your patience! :)

Best, Matjaž — Preceding unsigned comment added by Matjazgregoric (talk • contribs) 14:08, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

Hi Matjaz. Sorry, I added a few photos before reading this entry. It is just some training I am doing to become a Wikipedia editor. Feel free to delete any and all changes I have made. gapcarey —Preceding undated comment added 04:19, 8 January 2019 (UTC)

Hi all,

Thanks for your patience, I have finally finished the rewrite! Forgot to write a summary of my final edit.

Best, Matjaž

Easter egg in asteroid number

• Specific text to be added: In the last line of the Honors section, after 2021: Asteroid 212073 Carlzimmer, discovered by astronomers with the Mount Lemmon Survey in 2005, was named in his honor. The naming was announced by the International Astronomical Union on 16 June 2021., add the sentence:

The number 212073 is an Easter egg for some of the properties of DNA (the first digit 2 for the double helix, followed by the nucleobases encoded as A=1, T=20, G=7, and C=3).

• Reason for the request: David Rankin is a good friend, and the interview is about something I was involved in, hence I have a double conflict of interest.

References

Renerpho (talk) 12:52, 25 February 2025 (UTC)

Done PK650 (talk) 08:58, 20 March 2025 (UTC)

Did you know nomination

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The result was: rejected, closed by Dclemens1971 talk 01:09, 1 November 2025 (UTC)

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• ... that Carl Zimmer is the only science writer to have a species of tapeworm named after him (Acanthobothrium zimmeri)?

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  • Comment: It's funny, and he's an excellent science writer

Created by Charlie Faust (talk). Number of QPQs required: 0. Nominator has fewer than 5 past nominations.

Charlie Faust (talk) 00:22, 31 October 2025 (UTC).

• please see WP:DYKNOT: articles need to be recently created, expanded fivefold, or brought to WP:Good Article status. None of those have been done. I'm sorry I seem brash, I had this same experience with DYK when beginning Wikipedia. Roast (talk) 02:50, 31 October 2025 (UTC)