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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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (298 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A new cultural icon strode the world stage at the turn of the twenty-first century: the celebrity scientist, as comfortable in Vanity Fair and Vogue as Smithsonian.Declan Fahy profiles eight of these eloquent, controversial, and compelling sellers of science to investigate how they achieved celebrity in the United States and internationally--and.
- 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 index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-4422-3343-5
- OCLC:
- 904695096
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