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Introduction, Stereotypes of science / Allen L. Hammond
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Quest for order / John Tierney
Carleton Gajdusek, Outrageous ardor / Roger Bingham
Sheldon Glashow, The charm of physics / Arthur Fisher
Margaret Mead, An indomitable presence / Boyce Rensberger
Gerald Wasserburg, Timekeeper of the solar system / Leo Janos
How I measured the age of the moon / Gerald Wasserburg
Robert Trivers, Biologist of behavior / Roger Bingham
Kurt Gödel, Master of the incomplete / Rudy Rucker
Bernd Heinrich, An obsession with insects / William Jordan
Frank Oppenheimer, On the blacklist / Paul Preuss
Michael McElroy, A love of the fray / Tracy Kidder
Barbara McClintock, The overlooked genius of genetics / Evelyn Fox Keller
(con't) Charles Darwin, An interview at Down House / Roger Bingham
Robert Wilson, Lord of the rings / Philip J. Hilts
Herbert Simon, Boundless rationality / Patrick Tierney
James Lovelock, Inventor at large / Roger Bingham
Birgit Zipser, The biologist and the mud leech / Garrett Epps
John Wheeler, Messenger at the gates of time / Dennis Overbye
This participatory universe / John Wheeler
Tuzo Wilson, Earthquakes, volcanoes, and visions / Roger Bingham
Mark Ptashne, Molecular mission / Philip J. Hilts
Albert Einstein, The other Einstein / Timothy Ferris.
Subramanyan Chandrasekhar, Quest for order / John Tierney
Carleton Gajdusek, Outrageous ardor / Roger Bingham
Sheldon Glashow, The charm of physics / Arthur Fisher
Margaret Mead, An indomitable presence / Boyce Rensberger
Gerald Wasserburg, Timekeeper of the solar system / Leo Janos
How I measured the age of the moon / Gerald Wasserburg
Robert Trivers, Biologist of behavior / Roger Bingham
Kurt Gödel, Master of the incomplete / Rudy Rucker
Bernd Heinrich, An obsession with insects / William Jordan
Frank Oppenheimer, On the blacklist / Paul Preuss
Michael McElroy, A love of the fray / Tracy Kidder
Barbara McClintock, The overlooked genius of genetics / Evelyn Fox Keller
(con't) Charles Darwin, An interview at Down House / Roger Bingham
Robert Wilson, Lord of the rings / Philip J. Hilts
Herbert Simon, Boundless rationality / Patrick Tierney
James Lovelock, Inventor at large / Roger Bingham
Birgit Zipser, The biologist and the mud leech / Garrett Epps
John Wheeler, Messenger at the gates of time / Dennis Overbye
This participatory universe / John Wheeler
Tuzo Wilson, Earthquakes, volcanoes, and visions / Roger Bingham
Mark Ptashne, Molecular mission / Philip J. Hilts
Albert Einstein, The other Einstein / Timothy Ferris.