Scientists at Work: Profiles of Today's Groundbreaking Scientists from Science Times (CLS.EDUCATION)

Each week The New York Times, Science Times is essential reading for anyone interested in following today's exciting trends in science. One of the section's enduring features is the Scientists At Work column, which brings attention to the people behind some of the most important science being done today. From physics to paleoanthropology, Scientists at Work illustrates how the boundaries of scientific research are being challenged by brilliant minds from both traditional and non-traditional scientific communities.

Scientists at Work contains 50 updated and expanded profiles culled from the popular column. Written by renowned journalists including Gina Kolata, William Broad, Malcolm Browne, John Noble Wilford, Natalie Angier, and with an introduction by Cornelia Dean, Science Editor of the New York Times and author of Against the Tide, Scientists at Work brings fascinating creative personalities to life and also vividly explains astonishing theoretical and experimental discoveries at the frontiers of scientific exploration.

The New York Times is the world's most respected newspaper, with a yearly circulation of approximately 4 million and it is the winner of 77 Pulitzer Prizes. Its science reporting staff is widely recognized as being among the best in the world.

FROM NOBEL LAUREATES TO CURIOUS NONSCIENTISTS, everyone who follows the latest developments in science reads Science Times, the weekly supplement of The New York Times. And one of the section's most popular features is Scientists at Work.

Written by Natalie Angier, William J. Broad, Malcolm W. Browne, Gina Kolata, Nicholas Wade, John Noble Wilford, and other leading science reporters, this book explores the theoretical and experimental work being done at the forefront of science, while providing insights into the men and women behind it. Including leaders from both mainstream and nontraditional scientific communities, Scientists at Work takes us inside the remarkable, often quirky minds of the dozens and mavericks, prodigies and superstars who are pushing back the frontiers of knowledge in many scientific disciplines, from mathematics to medicine, particle physics to paleontology.

JUST A FEW OF THE CELEBRATED MEN AND WOMEN OF SCIENCE profiled in this volume include: Stephen W. Hawking, the cosmologist; Hans Bethe, the atomic physicist and antinuclear activist; Aaron Beck, father of cognitive psychology; Lene Vestergaard Hau, the physicist who slows light to a crawl; Edward O. Wilson, the naturalist; Andrew Wiles, the reclusive mathematician who finally cracked Fermat's famous scientist but is beloved by everyone who is one. Accompanying each profile is a new sidebar that expands on an aspect of the scientist's life or puts the science into context.

CONTAINING FIFTY INTRIGUING PROFILES that report authoritatively on the roots of scientific discovery as well as on the scientists themselves, Scientists at Work is essential reading for specialists and general readers alike.

THE NEW YORK TIMES is one of the world's most respected newspapers, with a circulation of 1.1 million weekdays and 1.7 million Sundays. It is the winner of 77 Pulitzer Prizes. Its science reporting staff is widely held to be among the best in the world.