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Faust in Copenhagen Faust in Copenhagen Gino Segrè Known to physicists as the "miracle year," 1932 saw the discovery of the neutron and the first artificially induced nuclear transmutation. However, while physicists celebrated these momentous discove… OL12039165W
Ordinary geniuses Ordinary geniuses Gino Segrè "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 Segrè's third book,… OL16317739W
What Are You Optimistic About? What Are You Optimistic About? Robert Shapiro,Lisa Randall,John McCarthy,Andrew Brown,Douglas Rushkoff,Richard Dawkins,Freeman J. Dyson,Jared Diamond,Brian Greene,Martin Rees,Paul J. Steinhardt,Martin Elias Pete Seligman,John Horgan,J. Craig Venter,Alexander Vilenkin,Charles Seife,Geoffrey Miller,Marcelo Gleiser,Michael Shermer,Steven Pinker,Lawrence Maxwell Krauss,Anton Zeilinger,Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Daniel C. Dennett,John Brockman,Karl Sabbagh,Clay Shirky,Gino Segrè,Lee Smolin,Carlo Rovelli,Leonard Susskind,Sam Harris,Max Tegmark,Chris Anderson,Jerry Adler,Frank Wilczek The nightly news and conventional wisdom tell us that things are bad and getting worse. Yet despite dire predictions, scientists see many good things on the horizon. John Brockman, publisher of Edge … OL2790329W