Pearce Wright was born in
Plymouth on 23 February 1933 and educated at
Bedford School before training as a
radiologist. He was a
journalist with
Electronics Weekly, between 1960 and 1966, and joined the
Times in 1966 as a technology reporter. He was science editor of the
Times from 1974 to 1990. His big, early stories included the
Torrey Canyon oil spill, off the
Isles of Scilly in 1967, and the
Space Race. He was chairman of the
Association of British Science Writers. Described by the
Financial Times as one of the "three giants" of science journalism in his era, Wright died on 6 May 2005. ==References==