by Lewis Wolpert, Alison Richards · Oxford Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780198542124
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«A Passion for Science» is a book of interviews by Lewis Wolpert and Alison Richards, in paperback, published by Oxford Paperbacks (216 pages, in English).
«A Passion for Science» grew out of a BBC series and brings together thirteen conversations with scientists from different disciplines —physics, molecular biology, oncology and astronomy— in which they explain why they became scientists, what they find most rewarding about their work and what it feels like to make a great discovery.
Among those interviewed are Nobel laureate Abdus Salam, Stephen Jay Gould, John Maynard Smith, Christopher Zeeman, Anthony Epstein and Richard Gregory.
For readers curious about science who are looking for personal and accessible accounts, with no need for technical knowledge.
Lewis Wolpert was a South African-born British developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster. Wolpert popularized his French flag model of embryonic development, using the colours of the French flag as a visual aid to explain how embryonic cells interpret genetic code for expressing characteristics of living organisms and explaining how signalling between cells early in morphogenesis could inform cells with the same genetic regulatory network of their position and role.
