Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos: Writings on Science

by JeremyBernstein (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $7.33

  A collection of pieces by the noted New Yorker science writer Jeremy Bernstein, this book includes pieces from the New Yorker as well as many others published in smaller journals and two new pieces. Among the great scientists discussed are Alan Turing, Primo Levi and Edwin Land.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.50

  Asking How can we be sure that Albert Einstein was not a crank? , this book looks at the history of science from a general perspective. It includes an autobiographical account of how the author became science writer for the New Yorker , and a series of profiles of famous scientists from Einstein, Neils Bohr and Alan Turing to Primo Levi, Edwin Land and Sophia Kovalevsky.