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Curious Minds

Curious Minds

How a Child Becomes a Scientist

by John Brockman
Paperback
Publication Date: 05/08/2013

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Some of the world's greatest scientists reveal how they discovered their vocation and became committed to a life of science.

Curious Minds is a book of original, autobiographical essays by twenty-seven scientists, including Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Lynn Margulis, Steven Pinker and Robert M. Sapolsky.

Each writer attempts to identify that moment or those influences in his or her youth which triggered the determination to become a scientist. Was there a particular event or set of circumstances? To what extent did parents, peers of teachers contribute? Why mathematics rather than psychology; why biology rather than physics? What were the turning points, mistakes, epiphanies?

Personal, passionate, revealing, enthralling, Curious Minds tells as much about life as it does about science.
ISBN:
9780099592877
9780099592877
Category:
Biography: science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
05-08-2013
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
256
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x16mm
Weight:
0.18kg
John Brockman

The publisher of the online science salon Edge.org, John Brockman is the editor of Know This, This Idea Must Die, This Explains Everything, This Will Make You Smarter, and other volumes.

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