Ed Yong | |
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.JPG) Yong in 2015 | |
| Born | Edmund Soon-Weng Yong 17 December 1981 |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | |
| Known for | Not Exactly Rocket Science (blog); I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (book); An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (book) |
| Spouse | Liz Neeley |
| Awards | Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | The Atlantic |
| Thesis | Searching for the human resolvase (2005) |
| Website | edyong |
Edmund Soon-Weng Yong (born 17 December 1981) is a British-American science journalist and author. In 2021, he received a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for a series on the COVID-19 pandemic. He is the author of two books: I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life (2016) and An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (2022).