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Brave genius : a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French resistance to the Nobel Prize / Sean B. Carroll.
- Title
- Brave genius : a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French resistance to the Nobel Prize / Sean B. Carroll.
- Author
- Carroll, Sean B.
- Publication
- New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | D802.F8 C3715 2013 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- x, 581 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The never-before-told account of two of the most insightful minds of the twentieth century--Jacques Monod and Albert Camus--and a dramatic story of how hardship and courage can unleash creative genius"--Dust jacket back.
- Subject
- Camus, Albert
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
- Monod, Jacques
- Monod, Jacques
- 1900-1999
- World War II
- Philosophy
- Nobel Prize
- Literature
- History, 20th Century
- Physiology
- Nobel Prize winners > France > Biography
- Authors, French > 20th century > Biography
- Authors, Algerian > 20th century > Biography
- Molecular biologists > France > Biography
- World War, 1939-1945 > Underground movements > France
- Politics and culture > France > History > 20th century
- History, 20th Century > France > Biography
- Nobel Prize > France > Biography
- World War II > France > Biography
- France
- France > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- Biography
- Biographies
- History
- Biografieën (vorm)
- Nobelprijzen.
- Verzetsbewegingen.
- Biologen.
- Schrijvers.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-567) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Chance, necessity, and genius -- The fall. City of Light ; Plans ; Misadventures in Norway ; Springtime for Hitler ; Defeated and divided -- The long road to freedom. Regrouping ; Ill winds ; An hour of hope ; Waiting and working ; The terror begins ; The Plague ; Brothers in arms ; Double lives ; Preparations ; Normandy ; Les jours de gloire -- Secrets of life. The talk of the nation ; Secrets of life ; Bourgeois genetics ; On the same path ; A new beginning ; Rebels with a cause ; Taking sides ; The attic -- Nobel thoughts and noble deeds. The blood of the Hungarians ; Repression and reaction ; A voice of reason ; The logic of life ; Making connections ; The possible and the actual ; Unfinished ; Messengers ; Synthesis -- French lessons. Camus in a lab coat ; Chance and necessity : Sisyphus returns -- Appendix. The science.
- ISBN
- 9780307952332
- 9780307952349
- 9780307952356 (eISBN) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2012050707
- OCLC
- 824670877
- SCSB-11949256
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library