Nathalia Holt, Ph.D. (born December 13, 1980) is an American author of non-fiction. Her works include ''Cured, Rise of the Rocket Girls'' and ''The Queens of Animation.''
Life
Holt is from
New York, NY
New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States. With a 2020 population of 8,804,190 distributed over , New York City is also the L ...
. She studied at
University of Southern California,
Tulane University, and
Harvard University. Her career includes work at the
Phillip T. and Susan M. Ragon Institute.
Her research as a science writer has included work at the
JPL
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center and NASA field center in the City of La Cañada Flintridge, California, United States.
Founded in the 1930s by Caltech researchers, JPL is owned by NASA an ...
archives, the Caltech Library, and the
Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America at Harvard.
Her work appears in ''The Atlantic,''
''The New York Times,'' ''PBS,'' ''Popular Science,'' and ''NPR.''
Her book ''Cured: The People Who Defeated HIV'' (2015) discusses the scientific complexities of
two patients who have been exceptions to the usual procession of AIDS. Each has experienced a "functional cure", raising hopes that researchers may someday find a "safe and reliable way" to protect patients against HIV. Two types of genetic mutation - the “exposed uninfected” and the “elite controllers,” - appear to be able to resist the disease. Holt describes the science involved, to the extent that it is currently understood.
Holt's book ''Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars'' (2016) chronicles the lives of women computers at NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California. It also puts them into the context of milestones in both scientific and more general history. Supervisors Macie Roberts and later Helen Ling employed women as computers at a time when few scientific careers were open to women.
Holt lives in
Monterey, California
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See also
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Timothy Ray Brown
Timothy Ray Brown (March 11, 1966September 29, 2020) was an American considered to be the first person cured of HIV/AIDS. Brown was called "The Berlin Patient" at the 2008 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections, where his cure ...
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Susan G. Finley
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Mary Blair
Mary Blair (born Mary Browne Robinson; October 21, 1911 – July 26, 1978) was an American people, American artist, animator, and designer. She was prominent in producing art and animation for The Walt Disney Company, drawing concept art for s ...
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Retta Scott
Retta Scott (February 23, 1916August 26, 1990) was an American artist. She was the first woman to receive screen credit as an animator at the Walt Disney Animation Studios.
Early life and education
Scott was born in Omak, Washington on February ...
References
External links
Official website*
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Living people
American microbiologists
People from Boston
HIV/AIDS researchers
1980 births
American non-fiction writers