Candid Science - Vol. 5
CANDID SCIENCE V
Conversations with Famous Scientists
by Balazs Hargittai (Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania) & István Hargittai (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Candid Science V: Conversations with Famous Scientists contains 36 interviews with well-known scientists, including 19 Nobel laureates, Wolf Prize winners, and other luminaries. These in-depth conversations provide a glimpse into the greatest achievements in science during the past few decades, featuring stories of the discoveries, and showing the human drama behind them. The greatest scientists are brought into close human proximity as if readers were having a conversation with them. This volume departs from the previous ones in that it contains interviews with mathematicians in addition to physicists, chemists, and biomedical scientists. Another peculiarity of this volume is that it includes nine interviews from another project, the collection of the late Clarence Larson, former Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission and his wife, Jane (“Larson Tapes”).
The 36 interviewees include famous personalities of our time, such as Donald Coxeter, John Conway, Roger Penrose, Alan Mackay, Dan Shechtman, Charles Townes, Arthur Schawlow, Leon Cooper, Alexei Abrikosov, Luis Alvarez, William Pickering, William Fowler, Vera Rubin, Neta Bahcall, Rudolf Peierls, Emilio Segrč, Harold Agnew, Clarence Larson, Nelson Leonard, Princess Chulabhorn, Linus Pauling, Miklós Bodánszky, Melvin Calvin, Donald Huffman, Alan MacDiarmid, Alan Heeger, Jens Christian Skou, Paul Lauterbur, Gunther Stent, John Sulston, Renato Dulbecco, Baruch Blumberg, Arvid Carlsson, Oleh Hornykiewicz, Paul Greengard, and Eric Kandel.
Readership: General readers and scientists.
"I recommend this volume, eminently suited for reading or browsing, not only to historians of science but also to practicing mathematicians, astronomers, physicists, chemists, physiologists, physicians, and other scientists, especially beginning ones, as well as to students, who will certainly enjoy these inspiring stories by some of science's leading luminaries."
From the Reviews of Previous Volumes “… the conversations encapsulate a time that is past and leave the reader with a comforting glow. The main protagonists have told their tales, and the author has conducted his interviews with sympathy and collected his material with care …”
From the Forewords to the Candid Science Volumes “.. the Hargittais are to be congratulated on yet another masterful Candid Science volume.”
| Candid Science V, Arvid Carlsson, Nobel Laureate |
“… share … common hopes for a fruitful future for science and humanity …”
| Candid Science IV, Arno Penzias, Nobel Laureate |
“… it will stimulate the reader to think in new directions.”
| Candid Science III, Herbert A. Hauptman, Nobel Laureate |
“… these volumes are exceedingly worthwhile and can be enjoyed by all, young and old.”
| Candid Science II, Arthur Kornberg, Nobel Laureate |
“… one is sharing in a conversation …”
| Candid Science, Lord Porter, Nobel Laureate |
| 712pp |
Pub. date: Apr 2005 |
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