Ordinary geniuses
Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the origins of genomics and big bang cosmology
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Word Count
82,500 words, Guess
Page Count
330 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL25121224M
- ISBN-139780670022762
- ISBN-100670022764
- OCLC Control Number682892638
- OCLC Control Numberordinarygeniuses00gino
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- Library of Congress Control Number2011009309
Classifications
- DDC572.8092
- LCCQH31.D434 S44 2011
Description
"A biography of two maverick scientists whose intellectual wanderlust kick-started modern genomics and cosmology. Max Delbruck and George Gamow, the so-called ordinary geniuses of Segrè's third book, were not as famous or as decorated as some of their colleagues in midtwentieth-century physics, yet these two friends had a profound influence on how we now see the world, both on its largest scale (the universe) and its smallest (genetic code). Their maverick approach to research resulted in truly pioneering science. Wherever these men ventured, they were catalysts for great discoveries. Here Segrè honors them in his typically inviting and elegant style and shows readers how they were far from "ordinary". While portraying their personal lives Segrè, a scientist himself, gives readers an inside look at how science is done--collaboration, competition, the influence of politics, the role of intuition and luck, and the sense of wonder and curiosity that fuels these extraordinary minds."--
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