Click Here to Download: https://ouo.io/x5D5BO Ordinary Geniuses How Two Mavericks Shaped Modern Science By: Gino Segre Publisher: Penguin Books (P-US) Print ISBN: 9780670022762, 0670022764 eText ISBN: 9781101517734, 1101517735 Format: EPUB Available from $ 4.99 USD SKU 9781101517734 For Sale in US* Only 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 Segre'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 Segre honors them in his typically inviting and elegant style and shows readers how they were far from ordinary. While portraying their personal lives Segre, 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. Ordinary Geniuses will appeal to the readers of Simon Singh, Amir Aczel, and other writers exploring the history of scientific ideas and the people behind them.
