David Perlman (December 30, 1918 – June 19, 2020)[1] was an American science journalist based in San Francisco, California, who was the science editor for the San Francisco Chronicle.
[2] Perlman was born in Baltimore, Maryland, and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
[4] He began his career as a reporter in 1940[5] at the San Francisco Chronicle, where he started covering science in 1957, after breaking his leg while skiing and reading about astronomy during his recovery.
[6][5][7] He became the Chronicle's science editor emeritus after retiring in August 2017 at the age of 98.
[8][6] In a 2017 interview for Poynter, he stated that cuts to science coverage in the media are "absolutely obscene" and create "a generation with a major disability in what they can think about and understand.