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Walter Isaacson
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American author, journalist and professor (born 1952)
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Walter Isaacson is an American male writer born on May 20, 1952. He began his professional work period in 1983. His notable works include *Steve Jobs*, *Einstein*, *Kissinger*, and *The Innovators*.
Isaacson has been recognized in the American Academy Arts Sciences collection. He has 234,883 social media followers.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 20 May 1952
- Works
- 24
Top works
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
- Einstein
- Kissinger
- The Innovators
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1952-05-20
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4,767
- Total plays
- 120,627
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Walter Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is a writer and biographer. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C. He has been the Chairman and CEO of CNN and the Managing Editor of TIME. He was appointed by President Obama to be the Chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors, which runs Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, and the other international broadcasts of the U.S. government. <a href="https://www.
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields
· 1983 · cited 31,494x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,776x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,955x
- The diagnosis of dementia due to Alzheimer's disease: Recommendations from the National Institute on Aging‐Alzheimer's Association workgroups on diagnostic guidelines for Alzheimer's disease
· 2011 · cited 13,448x
- A logical calculus of the ideas immanent in nervous activity
· 1943 · cited 13,217x
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Quotes
- “The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Walter Seff Isaacson , ( 1952-05-20 ) May 20, 1952 (age 74) , New Orleans , Louisiana, U.S.
- Education
- Harvard University ( BA ), Pembroke College, Oxford ( BA )
- Spouse
- Cathy Wright ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1984 )
- Awards
- Benjamin Franklin Medal (2013), Nichols-Chancellor's Medal (2015), National Humanities Medal (2023)
- President
- Barack Obama
- Preceded by
- James K. Glassman
- Succeeded by
- Jeff Shell
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Walter Seff Isaacson (born May 20, 1952) is an American journalist who has written biographies of Henry Kissinger, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs, Jennifer Doudna, and Elon Musk. As of 2024, Isaacson is a professor at Tulane University and, since 2018, an interviewer for the PBS and CNN news show Amanpour & Company.
He has been the president and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., the chair and CEO of CNN, and the editor of Time.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Walter Isaacson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.