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10-24-2010, 10:09 AM | #138 |
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Two excellent reads not specifically scientific but rather biographical accounts of two of the greats minds of all time:
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson Both really offer insight into true genius and show them warts and all...I was somewhat familar with Einstein's life and times but really did not know much about Oppie, now I do!! If you enjoy pure science and the humanity that often gets taken for granted when looking at the minds behind the science. |
10-24-2010, 10:16 AM | #139 |
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Oppenheimer was a quite interesting character and was totally abused in his later years at the hands of the government.
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yeah, Kenny...the book really gets into that part of things. The nice part was all of the ground work leading up to his vilification is covered to help the reader understand the context and exactly what was done to him. And it was all done pretty much with the same excuses used to justify things today.
Sadly I think if Einstein was not so old at the time, likely once done with him the government would have gone after him as well. |
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Cassidy mentioned the Brian Green book in the What we're reading thread. Don't know more that that.
I'm currently reading "Stiff" by Mary Roach and loving it....well except for the smell. |
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I am reading Objectivity by Lorraine Daston and Peter Galison. The social aspects of science is a subject I find fascinating. We tend to think of science as something pure and eternal, when in fact it is a social construction as much as anything else human. Which doesn't mean that the findings of science are all relative and impermanent, but that what we find and how we get to it depends in large parts of how we see the world and what we think science should or shouldn't be.
This is the second book by Lorraine Daston I read (the first was Wonders and the Order of Nature), and I like her outlook and the way she writes, and the subjects she chooses. This is a somewhat arduous but very rewarding read. |
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Thanks for that Florence! I'll check it out!
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