托马斯·R. 切赫（Thomas R. Cech）： 美国生物化学家，因其在RNA催化特性方面的开创性研究获得1989年诺贝尔化学奖。1978年加入科罗拉多大学博尔德分校任教，并开始独立科研事业；1988年成为霍华德·休斯医学研究所研究员，2000—2009年担任该研究所负责人。现为科罗拉多大学博尔德分校特聘教授、霍华德·休斯医学研究所的研究科学家。 曾获得荷兰皇家科学院喜力奖(1988年)、拉斯克奖(1988年)和美国国家科学奖章(1995年)等诸多奖项；他于1987年当选美国国家科学院院士，1988年当选美国艺术与科学院院士，获得了美国、欧洲、俄罗斯和南美洲国家十多个学院和大学的荣誉学位。

Thomas R. Cech is distinguished professor of biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder and a research scientist of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. His many honours include the Nobel Prize and the National Medal of Science. He lives in Boulder, Colorado.

吉纳维芙·冯·佩金格尔（Genevieve von Petzinger） 加拿大古人类学家、岩画研究专家，专注于对欧洲冰河世纪早期（约4万到1万年前）岩画遗址中几何图形的研究，她利用从欧洲400多处史前遗址收集来的5000多个符号，建立起了一个独一无二的数据库。2011年成为TED全球研究员，2013-2015年当选TED高级研究员，2016年被选为美国《国家地理》“新晋探险家”，作品见于《新科学家》《科学画报》等科普杂志。她于2015年发表的TED演讲已有超过650万人次观看。

吉纳维芙·冯·佩金格尔（Genevieve von Petzinger） 加拿大古人类学家、岩画研究专家，专注于对欧洲冰河世纪早期（约4万到1万年前）岩画遗址中几何图形的研究，她利用从欧洲400多处史前遗址收集来的5000多个符号，建立起了一个独一无二的数据库。2011年成为TED全球研究员，2013-2015年当选TED高级研究员，2016年被选为美国《国家地理》“新晋探险家”，作品见于《新科学家》《科学画报》等科普杂志。她于2015年发表的TED演讲已有超过650万人次观看。

Physics is in crisis. For more than two centuries, our understanding of the laws of nature expanded rapidly. But in the last few decades, we've made astonishingly little progress. What will finally break the impasse and get physics back on track? In this timely and original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the world's most audacious physics experimen...(展开全部)

Why is the universe expanding at an even faster rate? What is the nature of the 'dark matter' that makes up almost a quarter of the universe? Why does the universe appear fine tuned for life? And are there other universes besides our own? In this timely and original book, science writer Anil Ananthaswamy sets out in search of the world's most audacious physics experiments: the ...(展开全部)

Growing up in the high desert of California, Jim Doty was poor, with an alcoholic father and a mother chronically depressed and paralyzed by a stroke. Today he is the director of the Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE) at Stanford University, of which the Dalai Lama is a founding benefactor. But back then his life was at a dead end until at twelve ...(展开全部)

Winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association 2014 Science in Society Book Award A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of the Season A Book to Watch Out For, The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog A Los Angeles Times Gift Guide Selection One of the Best Physics Books of 2013, Cocktail Party Physics Blog, Scientific American Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this advent...(展开全部)

Winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association 2014 Science in Society Book Award A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of the Season A Book to Watch Out For, The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog A Los Angeles Times Gift Guide Selection One of the Best Physics Books of 2013, Cocktail Party Physics Blog, Scientific American Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this advent...(展开全部)

Winner of the Canadian Science Writers Association 2014 Science in Society Book Award A Publishers Weekly Top 10 Science Book of the Season A Book to Watch Out For, The New Yorker's Page-Turner Blog A Los Angeles Times Gift Guide Selection One of the Best Physics Books of 2013, Cocktail Party Physics Blog, Scientific American Detective thriller meets astrophysics in this advent...(展开全部)