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An exuberant dual biography that integrates developments in quantum physics, cosmology and genetics since the 1920s with the lives of these two scientists.--Kirkus Reviews
Gino Segrè's fascinating dual biography of George Gamow and Max Delbrück, "Ordinary Geniuses." Gamow was a theoretical physicist who made an interesting foray into the biology of protein synthesis, while Delbrück was a theoretical physicist who became a biologist and then won the Nobel Prize for his work in genetics.--Wall Street Journal
In parallel chapters Segrè has sensitively and insightfully narrated chronologically Delbrück and Gamow's personal and professional lives. And while doing so, he has clearly presented and explained their scientific contributions; the prior works on which they were based; and their present day importance and relevance.--American Scientist
Segrè convincingly shows how the pair's maverick personalities led to their discoveries, while their restlessness often stopped them seeing their ideas to maturity.--New Scientist
"Ordinary Geniuses makes me wistfully wonder if the world will ever again witness the coming together of such fun-loving intellectual brilliance.""About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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