The new celebrity scientists : out of the lab and into the limelight /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Fahy, Declan
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
Subjects:
Scientists > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > History.
Scientists
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of scientific celebrity
  • The paradoxical fame of Stephen Hawking
  • Richard Dawkins's image problem
  • Steven Pinker's academic stardom
  • The political celebrity of Stephen Jay Gould
  • Fame and the female scientist : Susan Greenfield
  • The reluctant fame of James Lovelock
  • The charming stardom of Brian Greene
  • Neil DeGrasse Tyson's star quality
  • A new scientific elite.

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