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John Galbraith Simmons
Author...Science and Medical Writer...
Novelist...Translator
John Galbraith Simmons has worked extensively in the history of science and medicine. His several books, aimed at both general and professional audiences, include:
The Scientific 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Scientists, Past and Present, (Citadel)
Doctors and Discoveries: Lives That Created Today’s Medicine (Houghton Mifflin)
tPa for Stroke: The Story of a Controversial Drug (in collaboration with Justin Zivin PhD, MD)
Location: New York City
Education: Northwestern University BA (Philosophy), honors
Long Island University MsEd (Developmental Studies)
Contact: jgs@jgsimmons.com
Simmons is the author of a noir quartet:
Lamplighter
Cried the Piper
The Sharing
Midnight Walking
A Tale of Literary and Financial Debauchery: On Joel Warner's "Curse of the Marquis de Sade"
Los Angeles Review of Books
April 11, 2023
New York Academy of Sciences
eBriefing:
Essay and long-form reportage:
Scientific
Medical
Literary
>300 articles
“Lindau and the Zeitgeist: Annual meeting of Nobel laureates "
Nature (2010) 467, S14–S15
"Simulation for Operational Readiness in a New Freestanding
Emergency Department"
"The Ions Have It: Targeting the Ion Channels for Drug Discovery"
Simul Healthc. 2016 Oct; 11(5): 345–356.
Translations
Aline and Valcour, or the Philosophical Novel, by Marquis de Sade. 3 vol, Contra Mundum Press (2019)
From French in collaboration with Jocelyne Geneviève Barque.
Our other recent translations include Outlaw: Author Armed and Dangerous, a memoir by Rédoine Faïd, also from Contra Mundum; and Ten Little Anarchists By Daniel de Roulet, from Autonomedia.
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