Talking Science

TV personality Adam Hart–Davis meets 14 of the world′s leading scientitsts to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground–breaking moments in their lives.
This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would like to leave for future generations.

Spis treści:
Preface.
Chapter One: Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Chapter Two: Sir Michael Berry.
Chapter Three: Colleen Cavanaugh.
Chapter Four: Richard Dawkins.
Chapter Five: Loren Graham.
Chapter Six: Richard Gregory.
Chapter Seven: Eric Lander.
Chapter Eight: Lord May of Oxford.
Chapter Nine: John Maynard Smith.
Chapter Ten: Rosalind Picard.
Chapter Eleven: Peter Raven.
Chapter Twelve: Sir Martin Rees.
Chapter Thirteen: Eugenie Scott.
Chapter Fourteen: Lewis Wolpert.
Credits.
Index.

Nota biograficzna:
Adam Hart–Davis is a successful freelance broadcaster, writer and photographer.  He is an acclaimed presenter of TV programmes, primarily for the BBC, that make science, technology and history accessible to a wide audience.  Before becoming a presenter he was a TV producer on a wide range of programmes for commercial television.
Adam Hart–Davis holds a Dphil from York University and an MA in Chemistry from Oxford University.  He was educated at Eton College.  He completed three years post doctoral research in Canada and the UK and several years in Oxford University Press before beginning his television career at Yorkshire Television.
Full details of the programmes on which he has worked can be found on his web–site: www.adam–hart–davis.org

Okładka tylna:
TV personality Adam Hart–Davis meets 14 of the world′s leading scientitsts to discuss their work, their passions, and those elusive ground–breaking mom ents in their lives.
This is a book that shows how science can explain the world that we inherited and shape the world that we would like to leave for future generations.