From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating adventure in the annals of science" (The New York Times). 16 pages of photos.

One of the few unquestioned greats of twentieth-century science, Linus Pauling was the only person to receive two unshared Nobel Prizes—one in chemistry, for deciphering the quantum physics of large molecules, and one in peace, for helping to end nuclear bomb testing. His brilliance was allied with a certain stubbornness, and when he died in 1994, at the age of 93, he was embro...(展开全部)

From a prize-winning biographer comes the defining portrait of a man who led America in a time of turmoil and left us a darker age. We live today, John A. Farrell shows, in a world Richard Nixon made. At the end of WWII, navy lieutenant “Nick” Nixon returned from the Pacific and set his cap at Congress, an idealistic dreamer seeking to build a better world. Yet amid the turns ...(展开全部)

丹尼尔·巴伦博伊姆（Daniel Barenboim，1942～），以色列钢琴家、指挥家。1942年11月15日生于阿根廷的布宜诺斯艾利斯。7岁登台演出。曾随E.菲舍尔、I.马克耶维奇、N.布朗热学钢琴、指挥与作曲。1956年以皇家爱乐乐团独奏家的身份在英国首次公演。1957年1月，在斯托科夫斯基指挥下，于卡内基大厅演出普罗科菲耶夫的《第一钢琴协奏曲》。此后，进行了一系列的巡回演出，获得世界声誉。1962年起从事指挥，1964～1975年担任英国室内乐团指挥，1975～1989年转任巴黎管弦乐队指挥，1991年至2004年担任芝加哥交响乐团首席指挥，1992年任柏林国家歌剧院音乐指导。曾先后指挥过柏林爱乐乐团、以色列爱乐乐团、费城管弦乐团、纽约爱乐乐团、伦敦交响乐团、英国室内乐团等。 曲目涉猎广泛。作为钢琴家，尤擅演奏贝多芬、莫扎特作品，以浪漫热情服...(展开全部)

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postd...(展开全部)

Katalin Karikó has had an unlikely journey. The daughter of a butcher in postwar communist Hungary, Karikó grew up in an adobe home that lacked running water, and her family grew their own vegetables. She saw the wonders of nature all around her and was determined to become a scientist. That determination eventually brought her to the United States, where she arrived as a postd...(展开全部)

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government's efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace-advancing medicine, domestic en...(展开全部)

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955. Even as the atomic bomb became the focus of Cold War anxiety, radioisotopes represented the government's efforts to harness the power of the atom for peace-advancing medicine, domestic en...(展开全部)