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In this endlessly engaging volume, biologist Lewis Wolpert lets readers sit in as he talks with 23 of the world's leading scientists. What is day-to-day life like for a scientist? How have they hit upon their most important discoveries? What is the nature of scientific creativit…
The popular stereotype of the scientist as mad boffin or weedy nerd has been peddled widely in film and fiction, with the implication that the world of science is far removed from the intellectual and emotional messiness of other human activities. In Passionate Minds, distinguis…
Throughout the 1990s and the 2000s, Istvan, Balazs, and Magdolna Hargittai conducted hundreds of interviews with leading scientists in physics, chemistry, materials, and biomedical research. These interviews appeared in a variety of publications, including Chemical Intelligencer…
A collection of interviews with 111 notable scientists, whose disciplines range from physics to chemistry to the biosciences, collected throughout the last 25 years.
Throughout the 1990s and the 2000s, Istvan, Balazs, and Magdolna Hargittai conducted hundreds of interviews with leading scientists in physics, chemistry, materials, and biomedical research. These interviews appeared in a variety of publications, including Chemical Intelligencer…
In a time where scientific rationality is under fire from every quarter, 'The End Of Science' is a witty, thoughtful, profound overview of scientific enterprise, a narrative which serves as both a critique and a homage to modern science.
"Drawn from American Public Media's Peabody Award-winning program Speaking of Faith, the conversations in this illuminating book reach for a place too rarely explored in our ongoing exchange of ideas - the nexus of science and spirituality. In interviews with such luminaries as …
"Drawn from American Public Media's Peabody Award-winning program Speaking of Faith, the conversations in this illuminating book reach for a place too rarely explored in our ongoing exchange of ideas - the nexus of science and spirituality. In interviews with such luminaries as …
Magdolna Hargittai uses over fifteen years of in-depth conversation with female physicists, chemists, biomedical researchers, and other scientists to form cohesive ideas on the state of the modern female scientist. The compilation, based on sixty conversations, examines unique c…
Magdolna Hargittai uses over fifteen years of in-depth conversation with female physicists, chemists, biomedical researchers, and other scientists to form cohesive ideas on the state of the modern female scientist. The compilation, based on sixty conversations, examines unique c…