From Galileo to Gell-Mann

Marco Bersanelli is professor of astrophysics at the University of Milan. He has worked as a visiting scholar at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, University of California and is a member of the science team of the Planck Surveyor Space Mission, the European Space Agency project to study the early universe. He is also president of EURESIS, a scientific and cultural association promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on frontier topics in science.

Mario Gargantini is an electronic engineer, a scientific journalist, and the director of Emmeciquadro, a journal on science teaching. He was also a high school physics teacher for twenty years. He has authored several books and essays on science and religion, history of science, and education; he has also been curator of a dozen scientific exhibitions.

In From Galileo to Gell-Mann, Marco Bersanelli and Mario Gargantini have gathered writings from over one hundred of the world’s brightest scientific minds on the question of “Why?” - specifically, why did these great scientists commit themselves so ardently to life in the laboratory? What was it that kept them dedicated to their research endeavors for years on end?

This new anthology is a goldmine of insight that previously could only to be found hidden deep within thousands of scattershot pages of footnotes from out-of-print journals, rare books, and unpublished papers. Among the most remarkable similarities that emerge when one considers together these writings from the likes of Albert Einstein, Gregor Mendel, Maria Curie, and others, is the sense of wonder and outright awe at what the study of the natural world can reveal.

ISBN: 9780230330382
Author: Marco Bersanelli & Mario Gargantini
Published by: Macmillan India Ltd
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