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Ordinary Geniuses: Max Delbruck, George Gamow, and the Origins of Genomics and Big Bang Cosmology
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Author
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Gino Segre.
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Viking
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hardcover
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9.25
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6.25
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ISBN
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9780670022762
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Pages/Publication Date
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330/2011
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Daedalus Item Code
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30381
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Description
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A former director of theoretical physics at the National Science Foundation and a world-renowned expert in high-energy elementary-particle theoretical physics, Gino Segrč gives us a dual biography of two maverick scientists whose intellectual wanderlust kick-started modern genomics and cosmology, Max Delbrück and George Gamow. Though they were not as famous or as decorated as some of their colleagues in mid-20th-century physics, wherever these friends ventured they were catalysts for great discoveries. While portraying these "ordinary geniuses," Segrč gives readers an inside look at how science is done—the collaboration and competition, the influence of politics, the role of intuition and luck, and the sense of wonder and curiosity that fuels these extraordinary minds.
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