Howard Blakeslee of AP, Gobind Behari Lal of Universal Service and David Dietz of Scripps-Howard, won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Reporting "for their coverage of science at the tercentenary of Harvard University.
"[1][2] He was a self-taught journalist whose formal education did not go beyond public schooling.
[1] He is also the author of Prodigal genius; the life of Nikola Tesla (1944), which was published in 18 editions in German and English.
In 1953 he observed a feature on the Moon, on the western shore of Mare Crisium, which he interpreted as a giant natural bridge, but it turned out to be an illusion.
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