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Popular As	Philip Elmer-DeWitt
Occupation
Age	75 years old
Zodiac Sign	Virgo
Born	September 8, 1949 (Boston, Massachusetts, USA)
Birthday	September 8
Town/City	Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Nationality	USA

🌙 Zodiac

Philip Elmer-DeWitt’s zodiac sign is Virgo. According to astrologers, Virgos are always paying attention to the smallest details and their deep sense of humanity makes them one of the most careful signs of the zodiac. Their methodical approach to life ensures that nothing is left to chance, and although they are often tender, their heart might be closed for the outer world. This is a sign often misunderstood, not because they lack the ability to express, but because they won’t accept their feelings as valid, true, or even relevant when opposed to reason. The symbolism behind the name speaks well of their nature, born with a feeling they are experiencing everything for the first time.

🌙 Chinese Zodiac Signs

Philip Elmer-DeWitt was born in the Year of the Ox. Another of the powerful Chinese Zodiac signs, the Ox is steadfast, solid, a goal-oriented leader, detail-oriented, hard-working, stubborn, serious and introverted but can feel lonely and insecure. Takes comfort in friends and family and is a reliable, protective and strong companion. Compatible with Snake or Rooster.

Philip Elmer-DeWitt has been covering science and technology for Time Magazine since he reported a cover story on computer "Whiz Kids" in 1982. He became a staff writer in 1983, a senior writer in 1993, a senior editor in 1994 and an assistant managing editor in 1997.

He started two new sections in the magazine-Computers (1982) and Technology (1987)-and in 1994 helped launch Time Online (now Time.com), America's first interactive weekly newsmagazine. In January 2002 was promoted to sciences editor, directing Time's coverage of science, medicine, space and the environment.

As a Time writer, he produced more than 500 news and feature stories on subjects ranging from in-vitro fertilization to computer sex. His cover stories include "Computer Viruses" (1988), "Curing Infertility" (1991), "The Rio Earth Summit" (1992), "Cyberpunk" (1993), "Sex In America" (1994), "Girth of a Nation" (1995), Bill Gates (1995) and "Cyberporn" (1995).

Since 1995, he has edited more than 150 cover stories, including the issue that named AIDS researcher Dr. David Ho Time's 1996 "Man of the Year" and Albert Einstein "Person of the Century," and run Time-sponsored conferences on the Future of Life (2003) and Obesity (2004) and Global Health (2005).

Elmer-DeWitt has made dozens of radio and television appearances and produced several 10-minute television features for PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer and CNN & Time (formerly CNN Impact).Born in Boston and raised in Lexington, Massachuseets, he was graduated summa cum laude in English from Oberlin College and studied at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and at the University of California at Berkeley.