Curious Minds How a Child Becomes a Scientist

Name: Curious Minds How a Child Becomes a Scientist
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ISBN: 9781400076864

ISBN-10: 1400076862

ISBN-13: 9781400076864

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Authors: John Brockman

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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 psychologist and the author of Flow, found his calling through Descartes. 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.

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/13/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.86" long x 0.61" tall
Weight: 0.506



acknowledgments


Introduction



A Family Affair



The Bungling Apprentice



Mountain



Safety in Numbers



My Father and Albert Einstein Alison GopnikA Midcentury Modern Education



Cosmology Calls



Member of the Club



A Strange Beautiful Girl in a Car



How We May Have Become What We Are



Patterns and the Participant Observer



Mixing It Up



A Childhood Between Realities



Dolittle and Darwin Howard Gardner


One Way ofMaking a Social Scientist



Brains Through the Back Door



The Objects of Our Lives



Intellectual Promiscuity



Tom Swift Jr. and the Power of Ideas



A Day in the Life of a Child



Toward the



The Everyday Practice of Physics in Silver City, New Mexico



The Math of the Real World



At Large in the Mountains



The Making of a Scientist



What I Want to Be When I Grow Up



The Gift of Solitude