Great Minds

Throughout the 1990s and the 2000s Istvan Balazs and Magdolna Hargittai conducted hundreds of interviews with leading scientists in physics chemistry materials and biomedical research. These interviews appeared in a variety of publications including Chemical Intelligencer Mathematical Intelligencer and Chemical Heritage. In four-thousand pages of interviews the Hargittais had conversations with over a hundred Nobel laureates along with many other top minds and personalities in various scientific fields.Now in a single volume the Hargittais have gathered the best and most notable moments of these interviews creating a survey of the past present and future of science as told by some of the most influential members of many scientific disciplines. Figures like James D. Watson Francis Crick and Glenn T. Seaborg share their thoughts in these pages in a collection that includes 68 Nobel Laureates. Without exaggeration their backgrounds come from all over the globe: scientists from the United States the United Kingdom Canada France Germany Israel Russia Sweden Switzerland and Taiwan are featured. These interviews discuss many of the most prominent debates and issues in today''s scientific climate. Great Minds is a synthesis of scientific thought as told by some of the most notable scientists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.