Gino Segrè
1) Ordinary geniuses: Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the origins of genomics and big bang cosmology
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"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 Segrè'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 (the universe) and its smallest (genetic code). Their...