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Thomas Hager Papers, 1898-2010

Timeline for Tom Hager

1953 Thomas Hager is born on April 18 in Portland, Oregon.
1983 Hager takes a position as founding editor of LC Magazine, a trade publication for scientists.
1987 With his wife Lauren Kessler, Hager co-authors and publishes Aging Well.
1995 Hager publishes Force of Nature: The Life of Linus Pauling, a biography of Nobel Prize winning chemist and peace activist Linus Pauling.
1998 Publishes Linus Pauling and the Chemistry of Life.
2000 Hager and co-editor Clifford Mead publish Linus Pauling: Scientist and Peacemaker.
2001 Hager revitalizes the University of Oregon Press and is appointed Director.
2006 Publishes The Demon Under the Microscope, a popular history of the discovery of sulfa drugs.
2008 Publishes The Alchemy of Air, an account of Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber's work with nitrogen fixation.
2016 Publishes six titles in a series called Naked Facts (Eugene, OR: Monroe Press): Seroquel (quetiapine); Understanding Zyprexa (olanzapine); Understanding Abilify (aripiprazole); Understanding Statins; Understanding PTSD (with Jackson Hager); Understanding MDMA (with Jackson Hager).
2019 Publishes Ten Drugs: How Plants, Powders, and Pills Have Shaped Medicine, New York: Abrams Books, March 2019 (German, Korean, Polish, Estonian, and audio editions).

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