No Boundaries: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VIGNETTES - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252029577 ISBN 13: 9780252029578

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Synopsis

Like any great university, the University of Illinois owes its prominence to the excellence of its faculty. In Lillian Hoddeson's No Boundaries, twenty-three scholars provide easily accessible vignettes about University of Illinois faculty who have made major contributions to their fields, to knowledge, and to the world.
 
Here are many of the most inspiring--and often most amusing--people whose work elevated the University of Illinois into a world leader in a variety of areas. Their lives demonstrate again and again that the work of the University takes place as much away from campus as on it: Oscar Lewis's pioneering studies of poverty in Mexico, for example, Ralph Grim's geological work in Africa, and Nathan Newmark's architectural work in Mexico City. Here also are insights into the remarkable careers of classicist William Oldfather, chemist Roger Adams, the amazing double Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen, and accounts of Katharine Sharp's work that made the University of Illinois Library into a national treasure. Also included are the legendary contributions of the University of Illinois to computer science, biochemistry, history, literary study, and electronic music.  

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Review

"The essays in this volume tell the stories of remarkable individuals, all of whom came to play leading roles in their fields and make contributions of lasting importance. Reading them, we learn about the many motivations that drive such people, about what led them to make their careers at Illinois, about the challenges they faced, and about what they accomplished. Some of these people are well known; others are less so. They exemplify, in different ways, the rare joining of determination, ability, commitment to excellence, and, sometimes, genius that marks the academy at its best.... The story is appropriately and best told in personal terms, for a university is a magnificently human institution."

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The making of an outstanding University - biographies of legendary contributions by the University of Illinois faculty.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252029577
• ISBN 13: 9780252029578
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Hoddeson Lillian