A robust defender of what he calls “the scientific enterprise,” Maddox has played many other roles in science and public affairs He was an affiliate of New York’s Rockefeller Institute in 1962-63, director of London’s Nuffield Found ation from 1975 to 1980, and a public interest representative on the UK Genetic Manipulation Advisory Group from 1976 to 1980. Maddox was also managing director of Macmillan Journal’s Ltd., a publishing house from 1970 to 1972 and chairman of Maddox Editorial Ltd. (whose publications included the European Gazette) from 1972 to 1974. His books include The Spread of Nuclear Weapons (written with Leonard Beaton and published in 1962), The Doomsday Syndrome (1972) and Beyond the Energy Crisis (1975).
During the reign of John Maddox, Nature has greatly extended its news coverage, doubled in circulation, and now sells 33,530 copies each week (14,887 of them in the United States). The editor of what ...
