ENGLEWOOD, N.J., May 31 (UPI) -- Award-winning health and science journalist Earl Ubell has died at age 90 in Englewood, N.J. of Parkinson's disease and dementia.
Ubell "covered the leading health and science breakthroughs of the postwar age with a lively and effective style," The Washington Post said.
He was science editor at The New York Herald Tribune from 1953 to 1966, winning a prestigious Albert Lasker medical journalism award for a series of articles about heart attacks.
Ubell interviewed physicist Albert Einstein, wrote about the discovery of the structure of DNA, Jonas Salk's work on the polio vaccine and Alfred Kinsey's research on sexual behavior, the newspaper said.
Ubell, who had a degree in physics, later became a science reporter and television news director in New York and served as health editor at Parade magazine.
