The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Richard Dawkins

Oxford Landmark Science

An anthology of diverse and inspiring pieces to browse and to treasure, confirming science writing as a literary genre of its own.
Captures the poetry and excitement of scientific understanding and discovery from 1900 to the present day.
Each essay or extract has been selected and is personally introduced by Richard Dawkins, producing a collection that is as wide-ranging and intellectually substantial as it is pleasureable to read.
Includes extracts from the works of J.B.S. Haldane, Stephen Jay Gould, Albert Einstein, D'Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing, Richard Feynman, C.P. Snow, James Watson, Martin Rees, Steve Pinker, Jared DIamond, and Erwin Schrodinger among others.

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Richard Dawkins

Description

Selected and introduced by Richard Dawkins, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a celebration of the finest writing by scientists for a wider audience - revealing that many of the best scientists have displayed as much imagination and skill with the pen as they have in the laboratory.

This is a rich and vibrant collection that captures the poetry and excitement of communicating scientific understanding and scientific effort from 1900 to the present day. Professor Dawkins has included writing from a diverse range of scientists, some of whom need no introduction, and some of whose works have become modern classics, while others may be less familiar - but all convey the passion of great scientists writing about their science.

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Richard Dawkins

Oxford Landmark Science

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

Richard Dawkins

Oxford Landmark Science

Author Information

Richard Dawkins, Former Charles Simonyi Chair of the Public Understanding of Science, Oxford University; Fellow of New College, Oxford; Fellow of the Royal Society; and Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Contributors:

Features extracts from the following writers

Peter Atkins
Per Bak
J.D. Bernal
Colin Blakemore
John Tyler Bonner
Sydney Brenner
Jacob Bronowski
Rachel Carson
Subramaniam Chandrasekhar
Francis Crick
Helena Cronin
Antonio R. Damasio
D'Arcy Thompson
Paul Davies
Daniel C. Dennett
David Deutsch
Jared Diamond
Theodosius Dobzhansky
Freeman Dyson
Sir Arthur Eddington
Maitland Edey
Albert Einstein
Loren Eiseley
Richard Feynman
R. A. Fisher
Kenneth Ford
Richard Fortey
George Gamow
Martin Gardner
S. J. Gould
Brian Greene
Richard Gregory
J. B. S. Haldane
W. D. Hamilton
Garrett Hardin
Alister Hardy
G.H. Hardy
Stephen Hawking
Douglas R. Hofstadter
Lancelot Hogben
Fred Hoyle
Nick Humphrey
Julian Huxley
James Jeans
Donald Johanson
Steve Jones
Jonathan Kingdon
David Lack
Richard Leakey
Primo Levi
Roger Lewin
John Maynard Smith
Ernst Mayr
Peter Medawar
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Roger Penrose
Max Perutz
Steve Pinker
Martin Rees
Mark Ridley
Matt Ridley
Oliver Sacks
Carl Sagan
Erwin Schrodinger
Claude Shannon
G.G. Simpson
George Gaylord Simpson
Lee Smolin
C.P. Snow
Russell Stannard
Ian Stewart
Lewis Thomas
Niko Tinbergen
Robert Trivers
Alan Turing
James D. Watson
Warren Weaver
Steven Weinberg
John Archibald Wheeler
G.C. Williams
Edward O. Wilson
Lewis Wolpert