 Robert Bazell, NBC News' Chief Science Correspondent, was awarded an Emmy in September, 1995 for a segment on the human brain. This was the latest of many honors for Bazell, whose reports appear on NBC Nightly News, Today and Dateline NBC. When Mr. Bazell was awarded the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award for distinguished achievement and meritorious service in broadcasting in 1994, the citation with the award said that Bazell's "reports have, for fifteen years, exemplified the best reporting on science and medicine. From transmission of the AIDS virus to innovations in cancer treatment, from the perceived dangers of cellular phones to alternative modes of health care, Mr. Bazell brings intelligence, understanding, and reportorial excellence to the task. Robert Bazell is an outstanding television reporter who recognizes when to speak, when to listen and when to tell." In his career with NBC News, Mr. Bazell has reported on a wide range of subjects in the areas of science, technology and medicine from throughout the United States and around the world. NBC viewers have long known that when there is a major breakthrough in science or medicine, Mr. Bazell will be there to explain it in a lively and understandable way. Mr. Bazell has received numerous awards, in addition to the Peabody , for outstanding reporting. His extensive tracking of the AIDS epidemic which began in 1982 when there were only a handful of cases, has included reports from all parts of the U.S., Africa, Europe, the Caribbean and South America, and earned the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia Award and the Maggie Award from the Planned Parenthood Foundation. He won another Emmy for a three-part series on the brain which appeared on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw. Mr. Bazell began his journalism career in 1971 as a writer for the "News and Comment" section of Science magazine. A year later, he moved to The New York Post as a reporter. In 1976, before he joined NBC News, he was briefly a reporter with WNBC-TV, the NBC Television Station in New York .
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