User:Davidwesterby/MatthewNaythons
Matthew Naythons | |
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| Born | February 8 1946 |
| Nationality | American |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Architecture, information architecture, design |
| Institutions | 19.20.21; TEDMED |
Matthew Naythons (February 8, 1946) is a physician and photographer who in response to the Cambodian refugee crisis in 1979 founded International Medical Teams, mobile groups that brought health care across the Thai border into Cambodia. Earlier, working as a photojournalist for Time Magazine and Gamma-Liaison Photo Agency, he photographed civil wars in both Vietnam and Nicarsgua as well as the Jonestown massacre. He would become a model for and served as a consultant for the Nick Nolte movie Under Fire.
Early life and education[edit]
Naythons was born (February 8, 1946) and grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor of science degree in natural science at Muhlenburg College in 1968 and received an MD from Hahnemann University, in Philadelphi in 1972. In high school, working as a freelance for a suburban Philadelphia paper, he decided to cover the funeral of John F. Kennedy, with a Philadelphia Police press pass, he talked his way into the East Gate of the White House and walked with the press corps in the funeral procession.
Career[edit]
IArriving in Prague in August of 1968, Naythons took photos of the Soviet invasion. After graduating from medical school in 1972 he moved to California where he began work as an emergency room doctor at Highland Hospital in Oakland. The following year he quit his medical practice, travelled in Europe and moved to Amsterdam. In October of 1973 he was able to get on an El Al flight for journalists to cover the Yom Kipper war based on the speculative interest in his photos by a Dutch newspaper. After covering Ben Gurion’s funeral in December of 1973, he returned to California where he alternated between working as a photojournalist and as an emergency room doctor. In 1975 he arrived in Saigon in the first week of April and was evacuated by helicopter when the Americans fled the country during May.
Personal life[edit]
Wurman moved from Philadelphia to Los Angeles in 1978, then to Newport, Rhode Island in 1993. He is married to Gloria Nagy, an author, and has four children, including Joshua Wurman, a noted atmospheric scientist.
Works[edit]
- Access Travel Guides
- Information Anxiety (1989)
- Follow the Yellow Brick Road - Learning to Give, Take, & Use Instructions (1992)
- Information Architects (1997)
- Information Anxiety2 (2000)
- Understanding USA
- USAtlas
- N: The Newport Guide
- 33: Understanding Change & the Change in Understanding (2009)
References[edit]
- Notes
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