BOOK NOTES HOOKED ON SCIENCE Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist, Edited John Brockman; Pantheon Books
ARE GREAT SCIENTISTS born or made? Editor John Brockman asked 27 promient scientific experts to relate in detail the childhood experience that made them decide to put on a lab coat. The result is Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a Scientist. It's an entertaining read that proves there's no single path to scientific greatness. Physicist Lee Smolin was suffering from a broken heart, so he picked up a tome by Albert Einstein to take his mind off his suffering, and got hooked. Stanford University biologist …
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