Free radicals
Subtitle: the secret anarchy of science
By: Michael Brooks
Edition: 1st U.S. hardcover ed.
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781590208540
Subjects: Science; History; Philosophy; Scientists
Description: Reveals the extreme lengths to which scientists have gone to make discoveries, sharing colorful stories of drug use, mystical visions, and cheating by famous figures from Newton and Einstein to Watson and Crick.
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Profile Books, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-300) and index.
Table of contents: title: How it Begins: Dreams, drugs and visions from God; title: The Delinquents: Rules are there to be broken; title: Masters of Illusion: Evidence isn't everything; title: Playing with Fire: No pain, no gain; title: Sacrilege: Breaking taboos is part of the game; title: Fight Club: There's no prize for the runner-up; title: Defending the Throne: Machiavelli would be proud; title: In the Line of Fire: Life on the barricades; title: Epilogue.