Education and Early Career
Rubinstein earned a B.A. and an M.A. at the University of California at Berkeley and taught English before entering the world of publishing. In 2006, Rubinstein received an honorary doctorate from Hallym University in South Korea and from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.
He served as Managing Editor for Natural History magazine and as editor and writer for Science 86, and IEEE Spectrum. It was at Spectrum that Rubinstein won a National Magazine Award for his definitive journalistic account of the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island (TMI) and the special issue on TMI which he edited. He has also won National Magazine Awards, the Pulitzer Prizes of the magazine industry, for two special issues exploring how science and technology contribute to war and peace.
At Newsweek, Mr. Rubinstein oversaw general news coverage during one of the most intense periods in recent U.S. history—the Iran-Contra period — as well as specialty features in science, medicine, religion, and education. His signal achievement was a cover package entitled “The Search for Adam and Eve.” This was the first description for the general public of the then novel DNA-tracing of the origins of modern humans in Africa.
From 1993-2002 Rubinstein was Editor of Science magazine. During his tenure there, he conducted the first one-on-one interview with Chinese President Jiang Zemin granted to a Western magazine editor and President Bill Clinton's first interview with a science magazine. Rubinstein also launched innovative online services such as a daily news service, ScienceNow, and Science's Next Wave, a unique, global Web site for graduate students and post-docs. He also initiated a novel Web-based service called SAGE KE (Science of Aging Knowledge Environment), creating a community of investigators pursuing the science of aging. He also negotiated the first national license to be paid for by the Chinese government for access to Western content. The service later came to be used by hundreds of thousands of Chinese investigators.
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