Istvan Hargittai is Professor Emeritus of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, and is the author of three previous books with OUP: Buried Glory (Fall 2014), Martians of Science (2006), and The Road to Stockholm (2003). Balazs Hargittai is a Professor of Chemistry at St. Francis University. Magdolna Hargittai is a Research Professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

"What makes this compendium more interesting than most is the fact that the Hargittais are astutely aware of important contributions of many scientists. It is valuable because it adds some interesting new jigsaw puzzle pieces to the pictures of how various important scientific discoveries came about." --Harold W. Kroto, Nobel Laureate, Florida State University

"The general or lay reader should have little doubt that this collection of 111 biographical commentaries of great minds includes most of the influential scientists of the past century. Most of them are among the most cited researchers of our era and often are characterized as citation laureates by information scientists like myself. The interviews with my beloved colleagues Joshua Lederberg, Roald Hoffman, Baruch Blumberg, Carl Djerassi, Richard Zare, and Mildred Cohn are vintage pieces reflecting their great communication and humanistic temperaments." --Eugene Garfield, Founder and Chair Emeritus of the Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia

Featured in the Bulletin for the History of Chemistry.