Bibliograph

Brave genius, a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French resistance to the Nobel Prize, Sean B. Carroll

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Brave genius, a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French resistance to the Nobel Prize, Sean B. Carroll

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 559-567) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Brave genius

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

824670877

Responsibility statement

Sean B. Carroll

Sub title

a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French resistance to the Nobel Prize

Summary

"The never-before-told account of two of the most insightful minds of the twentieth century--Jacques Monod and Albert Camus--and a dramatic story of how hardship and courage can unleash creative genius"--Dust jacket back

Table Of Contents

Chance, necessity, and genius -- The fall. City of Light ; Plans ; Misadventures in Norway ; Springtime for Hitler ; Defeated and divided -- The long road to freedom. Regrouping ; Ill winds ; An hour of hope ; Waiting and working ; The terror begins ; The Plague ; Brothers in arms ; Double lives ; Preparations ; Normandy ; Les jours de gloire -- Secrets of life. The talk of the nation ; Secrets of life ; Bourgeois genetics ; On the same path ; A new beginning ; Rebels with a cause ; Taking sides ; The attic -- Nobel thoughts and noble deeds. The blood of the Hungarians ; Repression and reaction ; A voice of reason ; The logic of life ; Making connections ; The possible and the actual ; Unfinished ; Messengers ; Synthesis -- French lessons. Camus in a lab coat ; Chance and necessity : Sisyphus returns -- Appendix. The science

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