Of One Mind: The Collectivization of Science (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781563960659)

This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists--Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how claims are tested. He then travels into the minds of scientists as they are drawn into competing directions. Here Ziman exposes the path of discovery, which is strewn with complex human needs, governmental restrictions, the desire for profits, and the exercise of technical virtuosity.

Author: John Ziman
ISBN-10: 1563960656
ISBN-13: 9781563960659
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
Language: English
Published: 05/08/1997
Pages: 407
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.76lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.44w x 1.17d