TY  - GEN
T1  - Rebels, mavericks, and heretics in biology
A2  - Harman, Oren Solomon
A2  - Dietrich, Michael R.
LA  - English
PP  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
YR  - 2008
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn667009993
AB  - This book is the first devoted to modern biology's innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of these scientists were Nobel Prize winners, some were considered cranks or gadflies, some were in fact wrong. The stories of these stubborn dissenters are individually fascinating. Taken together, they provide unparalleled insights into the role of dissent and controversy in science and especially the growth of biological thought over the past century. Each of the book's nineteen specially commissioned chapters offers a detailed portrait of the intellectual rebellion of a particular scientist working in a major area of biology--genetics, evolution, embryology, ecology, biochemistry, neurobiology, and virology as well as others. An introduction by the volume's editors and an epilogue by R.C. Lewontin draw connections among the case studies and illuminate the nonconforming scientist's crucial function of disturbing the comfort of those in the majority. By focusing on the dynamics and impact of dissent rather than on "winners" who are credited with scientific advances, the book presents a refreshingly original perspective on the history of the life sciences
OP  - 400
CN  - QH305 .R43 2008
SN  - 9781282353305
SN  - 1282353306
SN  - 9780300150544
SN  - 0300150547
SN  - 9786612353307
SN  - 6612353309
SN  - 9780300116397
SN  - 030011639X
KW  - Biology : History.
KW  - Biologists : Biography.
KW  - Biology : history
KW  - Biologie : Histoire.
KW  - Biologistes : Biographies.
KW  - SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Biologists
KW  - Biology
KW  - Kontroverse
KW  - Biologe
KW  - Biologie
KW  - Forschung
KW  - Biologer.
KW  - Biologi : historia.
KW  - Biography
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Biografie.
KW  - Biographies.
KW  - Biografi.
ER  -