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Barbara Burke Hubbard

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American science writer

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According to Wikipedia, Barbara Burke Hubbard is an American science journalist, mathematics popularizer, textbook author, and book publisher, known for her books on wavelet transforms and multivariable calculus. Life Burke Hubbard is the daughter of Los Angeles Times reporter Vincent J. Burke, and spent a year in high school living in Moscow when Burke was stationed there in 1964. She was an undergraduate at Harvard University, initially majoring in biology but switching to English, and graduating in 1969. She became a science writer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a journalist for The Ithaca Journal, and was the 1981 winner of the AAAS Westinghouse Science Journalism Award in the small newspaper category, for her articles on acid rain in The Ithaca Journal.

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