Through ten profiles of celebrated scientists, this text tells how the special insight each brought to an old question led to a new discovery. It includes Margaret Geller and John Huchra unfolding a map of the universe, Luis Alvarez's giant dinosaur-killing asteroid, Nobel Prize winner and part-time conjuror George Gamow, and Richard Feynmann.
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