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The new celebrity scientists : out of the lab and into the limelight / Declan Fahy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fahy, Declan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Celebrity scientists
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham ; Boulder ; New York ; London : Rowman & Littlefield, [2015]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781442233423
- 1442233427
- OCLC:
- 887858589
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