Timeline for Tom Hager
1953 | Thomas Hager is born on April 18 in Portland, Oregon. |
1983 | Hager takes a position as founding editor of LC Magazine, a trade publication for scientists. |
1987 | With his wife Lauren Kessler, Hager co-authors and publishes Aging Well. |
1995 | Hager publishes Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling, a biography of Nobel Prize winning chemist and peace activist Linus Pauling. |
1998 | Publishes Linus Pauling and the Chemistry of Life. |
2000 | Hager and co-editor Clifford Mead publish Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker. |
2001 | Hager revitalizes the University of Oregon Press and is appointed Director. |
2006 | Publishes The Demon Under the Microscope, a popular history of the discovery of sulfa drugs. |
2008 | Publishes The Alchemy of Air, an account of Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber's work with nitrogen fixation. |
2016 | Publishes six titles in a series called Naked Facts (Eugene, OR: Monroe Press): Seroquel (quetiapine); Understanding Zyprexa (olanzapine); Understanding Abilify (aripiprazole); Understanding Statins; Understanding PTSD (with Jackson Hager); Understanding MDMA (with Jackson Hager). |
2019 | Publishes Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped Medicine, New York: Abrams Books, March 2019 (German, Korean, Polish, Estonian, and audio
editions). |
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