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Joy
Adamson. The Searching
Spirit: Joy Adamson's
Autobiography. Austrian naturalist,
Adamson is perhaps best remembered for her books
Born Free and Living Free.
Adamson describes her childhood and
her three marriages, as well as her involvement
with the tigers and cheetahs of Africa.
QL31.A33 A3 1979
Luis
W. Alvarez. Alvarez: Adventures of a
Physicist. American physicist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize for physics in 1968, Alvarez reflects
on the professional and personal contexts of his
many discoveries, especially in connection with the
Manhattan Project.
QC774.A49 A3 1987
Jeremy
Bernstein. The Life It Brings:
One Physicist’s Beginnings. Physicist
and science writer for the New Yorker
magazine, Bernstein discusses his
professional involvement with such luminaries of
physics as Robert Oppenheimer, Francis Low and
Niels Bohr.
QC16.B458 A3 1987
John
Tyler Bonner. Life Cycles: Reflections
of an Evolutionary Biologist. Bonner describes
his lifelong study of slime molds and life cycles,
interspersed with biographical anecdotes. Each
chapter represents a stage in evolutionary
biology.
QH31.B715 A3 1993
QH31.B715 A3 1995x
Francis
Crick. What Mad Pursuit: A Personal
View of Scientific Discovery. English biologist
and recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine for
his work in determining the structure and
significance of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), Crick
describes his training and work in the fields of
physics, biology and neurology.
QH31.C85 A3 1989
Carl
Djerassi. The Pill, Pygmy Chimps, and
Degas’ Horse: The Autobiography of Carl
Djerassi. This Austrian
chemist led a team that first synthesized a steroid
oral contraceptive&emdash;the Pill&emdash;in 1951.
He discusses his upbringing in Vienna and Bulgaria,
his family’s flight to the United States at
the start of World War II, his professional career,
and his later involvement with public policy issues
surrounding contraception.
QD22.D63 A3 1992
Richard
Phillips Feynman."Surely You’re
Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious
Character. American theoretical physicist
and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics for his
work on quantum electrodynamics, Feynman
illustrates his scientific arguments with humorous
anecdotes drawn from his professional and personal
life.
QC16.F49 A37 1985
QC16.F49 A37 1989
George
Gamow. My World Line: An Informal
Autobiography. Russian-born nuclear
physicist and astrophysicist and an ardent
popularizer of science, Gamow reflects on his
childhood in Odessa and university life in
Leningrad. He also discusses his contribution to
the development of the "Big Bang" theory on the
origins of the universe.
QC16.G37 A3 1970
Jane
Goodall. Through a Window: My
Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe.
English primatologist, famous for her
studies of the chimpanzees of the Gombe Stream
Reserve in Tanzania Africa, Goodall provides
insights into the behavior of chimpanzees and
relates personal anecdotes that led to some of
these observations.
QL31.G58 A3 1990
Alice
Hamilton. Exploring the
Dangerous Trades: The Autobiography of Alice
Hamilton, M.D. American pathologist,
Hamilton's research into such conditions as lead
poisoning among steel workers led to stricter
occupational safety laws. In her
autobiography, she describes her childhood and her
decision to study medicine, as well as her
experiences in the international arena.
R154.H238 A34 1985
Mark
Kac. Enigmas of Chance: An
Autobiography. A Polish-born mathematician, Kac
made major contributions to probability theory,
numbers theory, and statistics. He describes his
early schooling and his "mathematical life." His
love for mathematics shines throughout his book,
with such sentences as: "As I look back on my life
I marvel at the improbable assortment of people
who, independently of each other, cooperated to
keep me from being incinerated in the ovens of
Auschwitz or Belsen…"
QA29.K23 A34 1985
Mary
Leakey. Disclosing the
Past. English paleontologist and
anthropologist, Leakey made important contributions
to our understanding of human prehistory through
her excavations at Laetoli and Olduvai Gorge in
Tanzania, Africa. Leakey relates her first
impressions of Africa, developing an interest in
archaeology and living in wartime Kenya. Mary
Leakey also describes her professional and personal
partnership with Louis Leakey.
GN21.L372 A33 1984
S.
E. Luria. A Slot Machine, a Broken Test
Tube: An Autobiography. This Italian-born
biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in medicine
for discoveries involving the replication
mechanism, the genetic make-up of viruses, made key
discoveries in the field of virology. Luria founded
MIT’s Center for Cancer Research. Here he
describes early life and career in Italy and the
influences of the anti-Fascist politics of his
mentors in science.
QR31.L84 A37 1984
P.
B. Medawar. Memoir of a Thinking
Radish: An Autobiography. English
biologist, winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize in
physiology for his work in immunology, Medawar
describes his early schooling, research experience,
and family life.
QR180.72.M43 A3 1986
Sir
Rudolf Ernst Peierls. Bird of Passage:
Recollections of a Physicist. German-born
physicist, Peierls helped develop the technology of
the atomic bomb and was an early advocate of
nuclear weapons control. Here he describes early
years in Germany and later research experience in
England.
QC16.P375 A32 1985
Jacob
Rabinow. Inventing for Fun and Profit.
Russian-born electrical engineer and inventor
of one of the first optical character recognition
programs that is still in use today as the basis
for sorting machines in post offices and banks,
Rabinow discusses the technical background of his
many inventions.
T212 .R32 1990x
Emilio
Segrae. A Mind Always in Motion: The
Autobiography of Emilio Segrae. Italian-born
nuclear physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in
physics for the creation of anti-proton, particles
of anti-matter with negative charges, he was a key
figure in the development of the plutonium bomb.
Included here are his early scientific career and
upbringing in Italy, his work at Los Alamos during
the war, and his later involvement with the nuclear
disarmament movement.
QC16.S35 A3 1993
Alexander
R. Todd. A Time to Remember: The
Autobiography of a Chemist. Scottish-born
organic chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in
chemistry for his research on nucleotides,
nucleotide coenzymes, and nucleic acid, Todd
provides details of his life in chemistry, from
obtaining a home chemistry set at the age of eight,
to his involvement in later life in public policy
on scientific issues. QD22.T74 A35 1983
John
Archibald Wheeler. Geons, Black Holes,
and Quantum Foam: A Life in Physics. This
American physicist worked with Niels Bohr and
Edward Teller in developing the processes of
nuclear fission and fusion. Wheeler also conducted
military research associated with the Manhattan
Project and helped to create the hydrogen
bomb. He is credited with coining the term
"black hole." He discusses his childhood and
various collaborations with other physicists.
QC16.W48 A3 1998
Edward
Osborne Wilson. Naturalist.
This American biologist made pioneering
discoveries in the fields of entomology,
evolutionary biology, and sociobiology.
QH31.W64 A3 1995
Compiled
by James Nalen, North End Branch, Boston
Public Library, 1999.
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