@article{437317,
      recid = {437317},
      author = {Segrè, Gino.},
      title = {Ordinary geniuses : Max Delbrück, George Gamow, and the  origins of genomics and big bang cosmology /},
      publisher = {Viking,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xxi, 330 p. :},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {"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 maverick  approach to research resulted in truly pioneering science.  Wherever these men ventured, they were catalysts for great  discoveries. Here Segrè honors them in his typically  inviting and elegant style and shows readers how they were  far from "ordinary". While portraying their personal lives  Segrè, a scientist himself, gives readers an inside look at  how science is done--collaboration, competition, the  influence of politics, the role of intuition and luck, and  the sense of wonder and curiosity that fuels these  extraordinary minds."--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/437317},
}