Outsider Scientists - Routes to Innovation in Biology

Describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. From Noam Chomsky using linguistics to answer questions about brain architecture, to Erwin Schrodinger contemplating DNA as a physicist would, this book features outsiders who show how much there is to gain from disrespecting conventional boundaries.

About the author

Oren Harman is the chair of the Graduate Program in Science, Technology, and Society at Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, and the author of "The Man Who Invented the Chromosome" and "The Price of Altruism." He lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. Michael R. Dietrich is professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth College and coeditor of "The Educated Eye." He lives in Amherst, MA. Together Harman and Dietrich are the editors of "Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology."

Summary

Describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. From Noam Chomsky using linguistics to answer questions about brain architecture, to Erwin Schrodinger contemplating DNA as a physicist would, this book features outsiders who show how much there is to gain from disrespecting conventional boundaries.

Product details

• Authors: Oren Harman, Oren Dietrich Harman
• Assisted by: Michael R. Dietrich (Editor), Dietrich Michael R. (Editor), Oren Harman (Editor), Harman Oren (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2013
• EAN: 9780226078373
• ISBN: 978-0-226-07837-3
• No. of pages: 392
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / History, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, History of Science, Biology, life sciences