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Curious Minds : How a Child Becomes a Scientist
Curious Minds How a Child Becomes a Scientist
Author: John Brockman (Editor)
What makes a child decide to become a scientist? —
  • For Robert Sapolsky, Stanford professor of biology, it was an argument with a rabbi over a passage in the Bible.
  • Physicist Lee Smolin traces his inspiration to a volume of Einstein’s work, picked up as a diversion from heartbreak.
  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, a ps...  more »


Murray Gell-Mann, Nicholas Humphrey, Freeman Dyson...27 scientists in all write about what it was that sent them on the path to their life's work. Illuminating memoir meets superb science writing in stories that invite us to consider what it is -- and what it isn’t -- that sets the scientific mind apart.
ISBN-13: 9781400076864
ISBN-10: 1400076862
Publication Date: 9/13/2005
Pages: 256
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Vignettes about how various scientists grew up. Is not an instruction manual on how to make your child into a scientist, though, which is more what I expected.


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