Robert E. Adler

Robert Adler was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, studied physics and mathematics at the University of New Mexico, and psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. During his career as a clinical psychologist he researched and wrote Sharing the Children, a book aimed at helping divorced or divorcing parents resolve their conflicts and work out child-rearing plans that protect their children. Since completing the science journalism program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, he has worked as a freelance science and technology writer. He has written many science and technology news stories, profiles, and features for New Scientist, Nature, Astronomy, ScienceNow, the San Jose Mercury News, the Boston Globe and other print and online publications. He has also written two books published by John Wiley & Sons, Science Firsts: From the Creation of Science to the Science of Creation, and Medical Firsts: From Hippocrates to the Human Genome. These books trace the history of science and medicine through the stories of some of the greatest researchers and their discoveries. With his wife, Jo Ann Wexler, he writes and continually updates Viva Oaxaca: An Insiders Guide to Oaxaca's Charms, which has become a leading guidebook to that Mexican destination.