John Rennie

Background

Rennie, John was born in 1959.

Education

He received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Yale University in 1981, after which he worked as a science writer and researcher at Harvard Medical School.

Career

He currently teaches science writing as adjunct professor at New York University"s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, and writes his The Gleaming Retort on the PLoS Blogs Network. Scientific American

He joined the Board of Editors at Scientific American in 1989. Rennie has written and edited articles on biology, technology and medicine and helped Scientific American produce award-winning single-topic issues for a variety of publications.

He was editor of the magazine for almost fifteen years, from late 1994 to June 2009.

Rennie has performed improv in New York City and his home town of Boston, and also holds a black-belt in karate.

Achievements

• John Rennie has been listed as a noteworthy editor by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • Address of Sir John Rennie, President, to the Annual General Meeting: January 20, 1846 (Classic Reprint)

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  • Report of a survey of the River Thames, between Reading and Isleworth; and of several lines of canals projected to be made between those places: with ... eligibility. By John Rennie, civil engineer.

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  • Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Classic Reprint)

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  • Address of Sir John Rennie: President, to the annual general meeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers, January 20, 1846

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  • Autobiography of Sir John Rennie: F. R, Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers (Classic Reprint)

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  • Address of Sir John Rennie, President, to the Annual General Meeting, January 20, 1846, pp. 1-108

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  • Cities and Nature by Benton-Short, Lisa, Short, John Rennie Routledge, 2007 ( Paperback ) Paperback
  • Autobiography Of Sir John Rennie: Comprising The History Of His Professional Life

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  • Address of Sir John Rennie, President, to the Annual General Meeting Of The Institution of Civil Engineers, January 20, 1846 - Primary Source Edition

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  • Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.: Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Primary Source Edition

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  • Address of Sir John Rennie, President, to the Annual General Meeting of The ... 1846 Hardcover

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  • The Report On the Pier Proposed to Be Erected at Deal: In the County of Kent. Presented November 23Rd, 1837 by John Rennie (2010-05-25)
  • The Ratchet: A Cool Look at the European Union by John Rennie Stewardson (2000-12-30)
  • Imagined Country by John Rennie Short (2005-08-02)
  • Imagined Country: Environment, Culture, and Society (Space, Place and Society) by John Rennie Short (2002-03-31)
  • Globalization, Modernity and the City (Routledge Studies in Human Geography) by John Rennie Short (2013-04-13)
  • An Introduction to Political Geography by John Rennie Short (1993-01-07)
  • Imagined Country by John Rennie Short (2002-03-31)
  • Cartographic Encounters: Indigenous Peoples and the Exploration of the New World by John Rennie Short (2009-07-15)
  • Urban Theory: A Critical Assessment by Professor John Rennie Short (2006-06-05)
  • Human Geography: A Short Introduction by John Rennie Short (2014-07-01)
  • Cities and Suburbs: New Metropolitan Realities in the US by Hanlon, Bernadette, Short, John Rennie, Vicino, Thomas J.(December 6, 2009) Paperback
  • Human Geography: A Short Introduction by John Rennie Short (2014-07-01)
  • Human Geography: A Short Introduction by John Rennie Short (2014-07-01)
  • The Urban Order: Introduction to Urban Geography by John Rennie Short (1996-06-21)
  • Korea: A Cartographic History by John Rennie Short (2012-05-30)
  • Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S.: Past President of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Scholar's Choice Edition by John Rennie (2015-02-08)
  • An Introduction to Political Geography by John Rennie Short (1993-02-21)

Interests

• Karate.