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Lone Frank
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Journalist and Author
Weekendavisen
Denmark
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Biography:
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| Lone Frank is a journalist and author with a Ph.D. in neurobiology and a background in research. As a staff writer at Weekendavisen, Denmark’s leading news paper, she is Denmark’s most distinguished science writer and a well-known voice in debates about science, technology and society. She is widely invited as a public speaker. She has written for leading international publications such as Science, Nature Biotechnology and Newsweek and regularly appears as a commentator on Danish radio and television. In 2007, 2008 and 2011 she presented and co-produced tv mini-series on controversial science for the Danish National Broadcasting Corporation, DR. At present, Lone Frank has published four books: The New Life (Gyldendal, 2004) Cloned Tigers (Gyldendal, 2005) Mindfield (Oneworld, 2009) My Beautiful Genome (Oneworld, 2011) All have won critical acclaim and some have been translated into several languages. Lone Frank has won several awards for her writing. She lives in Copenhagen. |
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