Passionate Minds: The Inner World of Scientists

by Alison Richards and Lewis Wolpert

In this endlessly engaging volume, biologist Lewis Wolpert lets readers sit in as he talks with 23 of the world's leading scientists. What is day-to-day life like for a scientist? How have they hit upon their most important discoveries? What is the nature of scientific creativity?
Here, in this stimulating series of conversations, such eminent scientists as Murray Gell-Man, Jared Diamond, Gerald Edelman, Richard Lewontin, Roald Hoffman, and Carlo...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198549040
• ISBN13: 9780198549048
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"