Book ID: CBB185690172

Great Minds: Reflections of 111 Top Scientists (2014)

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Hargittai, Balazs (Author)
Hargittai, Magdolna (Author)
Hargittai, István (Author)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 386 pp.
Language: English

Throughout the 1990s and the 2000s, Istvan, Balazs, and Magdolna Hargittai conducted hundreds of interviews with leading scientists in physics, chemistry, materials, and biomedical research. These interviews appeared in a variety of publications, including Chemical Intelligencer, Mathematical Intelligencer, and Chemical Heritage. In four-thousand pages of interviews, the Hargittais had conversations with over a hundred Nobel laureates, along with many other top minds and personalities in various scientific fields. Now, in a single volume, the Hargittais have gathered the best and most notable moments of these interviews, creating a survey of the past, present, and future of science, as told by some of the most influential members of many scientific disciplines. Figures like James D. Watson, Francis Crick, and Glenn T. Seaborg share their thoughts in these pages, in a collection that includes 68 Nobel Laureates. Without exaggeration, their backgrounds come from all over the globe: scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Taiwan are featured. These interviews discuss many of the most prominent debates and issues in today's scientific climate. Great Minds is a synthesis of scientific thought, as told by some of the most notable scientists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

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Review David J. Caruso (2015) Review of "Great Minds: Reflections of 111 Top Scientists". Bulletin for the History of Chemistry (pp. 58-59). unapi

Review David J. Caruso (2015) Review of "Great Minds: Reflections of 111 Top Scientists". Bulletin for the History of Chemistry (pp. 58-59). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Bonolis, Luisa
Butler, Stella V. F.
Castro, Selma Munhoz Sanches de
Cenadelli, Davide
Chen, Chongbin
Comfort, Nathaniel C.
Journals
Chinese Journal for the History of Science and Technology
European Physical Journal H
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Publishers
Palgrave Macmillan
University of Southampton (United Kingdom)
University of Wales, Bangor (United Kingdom
Dongfang chubanshe
International Maritime Economic History Association
Concepts
Interviews
Oral history
History of science, as a discipline
Historical method
Public health
Medicine and society
People
Hubbard, Harvey
Leontovich, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
McClintock, Barbara
Robinson, Robert
Sagdeev, Roald Z.
Tong, Te-Kong
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
China
Great Britain
East Germany
Rome (Italy)
Soviet Union
Russia
Institutions
Chinese Academy of Sciences
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