We are All Stardust Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk About Their Work Their Lives and What They Still Want to Know

We are All Stardust : Scientists Who Shaped Our World Talk About Their Work, Their Lives, and What They Still Want to Know
ISBN: 9781925106992
Publication Date: 18 November 2015

World-leading natural and social scientists shed light on their discoveries and lives in conversation with an award-winning science writer.

When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize-winning chemist Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, 'First and foremost, curiosity.' In this collection of intimate conversations with 19 of the world's best-known scientists, Klein lets us listen in as today's leading minds reveal what they still hope to discover-and how their paradigm-changing work entwines with their lives outside the lab.

From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest for 'the theory of everything' to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison Gopnik new insight into raising children, scientists explain how they find inspiration everywhere. Hear from: evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on selfishness; anthropologist Sarah Hrdy on motherhood; primatologist Jane Goodall on animal behaviour; neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran on consciousness; geographer Jared Diamond on chance in history; And other luminaries!

About the Author

Stefan Klein, born 1965 in Munich, is considered one of the most influential science writers in Europe. He studied physics and analytical philosophy in Munich, Grenoble and Freiburg and graduated in biophysics. But after some years in academic research he started a new career as a science writer because he "wanted to inspire people with a reality that is more exciting than any thriller".

From 1996 to 1999 he was an editor at Der Spiegel, a news magazine; in 1998 he won the prestigious Georg-von-Holtzbrinck-Preis for science journalism.

His book The Science o...