John Maddox dies at 83; editor transformed Nature into influential journal
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 - 03:22
in Psychology & Sociology
Maddox was an ardent campaigner against what he viewed as slipshod or misguided science. John Maddox, a former physics lecturer and science journalist whose 22 years as editor of Nature transformed the moss-covered journal into one of the world's leading sources of science information, has died. He was 83.