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Elizabeth Bailey

Elizabeth Bailey is a scientist, writer, and artist. She earned her PhD in chemistry from Columbia University and her BA in studio art and chemistry from Kenyon College. Her writing—on algorithmic art, a forgotten female scientific illustrator, and the mechanisms of mass extinctions—has appeared in Scientific American and the Kenyon Review.