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Passionate minds : the inner world of scientists
- Title
- Passionate minds : the inner world of scientists / Lewis Wolpert and Alison Richards.
- Author
- Wolpert, L. (Lewis)
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Richards, Alison.
- Description
- vi, 240 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Note
- "A companion volume to A passion for science."
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Passionate minds / Alison Richards -- Blemished heroes / Carl Djerassi, chemist -- Tapeworm quadrilles / Roald Hoffmann, theoretical chemist -- Worlds apart / Jared Diamond, physiologist and evolutionary biologist -- Scaling the heights / Leroy Hood, biotechnologist -- Clinical science / David Weatherall, clinician and molecular biologist -- Swimming with the tide / James Lighthill, applied mathematician -- Freeing the mind / James Lovelock, chemist -- Gardens of the minds / Peter Mitchell, biochemist -- Not a company man / John Cairns, molecular biologist -- Not all in the genes / Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologist -- In agreement with nature / Antonio Garcia Bellido, developmental biologist -- Daydreaming molecules / James Black, pharmacologist -- Going into the dark / Gerald Edelman, immunologist and neurobiologist -- Hole in one / Michael Berridge, cell biologist -- Ways of seeing / Elwyn Simons, palaeontologist -- Three quarks for muster mark / Murray Gell-Mann, theoretical physicist -- The weirdest of fancies / Sheldon Glashow, theoretical physicist -- Directly to the heart / Nicole Le Douarin, developmental biologist -- Other minds / Gerald Holton, physicist and historian -- Asking nature / Carlo Rubbia, particle physicist -- A very tidy desk / David Pilbeam, physical anthropologist -- Of mice and mothers / Anne McLaren, mammalian developmental biologist -- A family affair / Avrion Mitchison, immunologist.
- Call Number
- JSE 00-1948
- ISBN
- 0198549040 (hardcover)
- LCCN
- 97005783
- OCLC
- 36393391
- Author
- Wolpert, L. (Lewis)
- Title
- Passionate minds : the inner world of scientists / Lewis Wolpert and Alison Richards.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Added Author
- Richards, Alison.
- Research Call Number
- JSE 00-1948