Origins
Subtitle: the lives and worlds of modern cosmologists
By: Alan Lightman and Roberta Brawer.
Contributors: Brawer, Roberta.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 563
Subjects: Cosmology -- Miscellanea.; Astronomers -- Biography.
Description: Reveals the human being within the scientist, in a unique study of the philosophical, personal, and social factors that enter into the scientific process. Twenty-seven cosmologists talk candidly about their childhood and early influences, their motivations, prejudices, and world views.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-530) and index.
Contains interviews with 27 persons.