---
title: "Gina Kolata"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Gina Kolata"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-08-24T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["antisemitism in Soviet mathematics","Fields Medal (1978, Margulis)","science journalism"]
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---


American science journalist, longtime staff writer for *Science* and later
*The New York Times*, whose 1978 *Science* article "Anti-Semitism Alleged in
Soviet Mathematics" (202, no. 4373, pp. 1167–1170) is the earliest known
published, contemporaneous report of Grigory Margulis's exclusion from the
1978 Fields Medal ceremony.

Matters to this vault as the earliest independent chain named in
[[claim-margulis-1978-fields-medal-travel-block-independently-confirmed-outside-novikov]]
— though the article itself has not yet been directly fetched by any
session; its relevance is known only via Wikipedia's citation of it, a
caveat recorded on that note.

## References
- [[claim-margulis-1978-fields-medal-travel-block-independently-confirmed-outside-novikov]]