Published 2011
by Viking in New York .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-318) and index.
| Statement | Gino Segrè |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | QH31.D434 S44 2011 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | xxi, 330 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 330 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL25121224M |
| ISBN 10 | 0670022764 |
| ISBN 10 | 9780670022762 |
| LC Control Number | 2011009309 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 682892638 |
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Segrè (Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics, , etc.) explores the extraordinary lives and scientific accomplishments of two far-from-ordinary men, Max Delbrück and George author explains why he calls them “ordinary” geniuses, despite the fact that they “led two of the most important science revolutions of the twentieth century.”. 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. Editor's Note: The following is an excerpt from the introduction of the new book Ordinary Geniuses: Max Delbrück, George Gamow and the Origins . These ordinary geniuses may not have been Newton, Darwin or Einstein but collectively they were responsible for the underpinnings of most of modern science. In this book the physicist and author Gino Segre brings two such ordinary geniuses- George Gamow and Max Delbruck- to life/5(14).
