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Abstract
Gobind Behari Lal was science editor (and science editor emeritus) of the Hearst groups San Francisco Examiner, New York American Weekly and Universal Service from 1925 to 1982. Lal's career spans the period when popularization of science was one of the recurring themes in American mass media. Despite the extensive research on science journalism in the United States, few studies mention Lal. Yet Lal's contribution is evident from his 1937 Pulitzer Prize for reporting, 1946 Westinghouse Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 1958 American Medical Association Distinguished Layman Award. Based largely on Lal's oral history interviews, this biographical study addresses a gap in the historical literature on science writers in America.