Contents: Nicolaas A. Rupke: Introduction: Telling Lives in Science and Religion – Mark Stoll: Rachel Carson (1907-64) – Arie Leegwater: Charles Alfred Coulson (1910-74) – Jitse M. van der Meer: Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-75) – Jason M. Rampelt: Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944) – Gebhard Löhr: Albert Einstein (1879-1955) – James Moore: Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962) – Peter J. Bowler: Julian Huxley (1887-1975) – Richard H. Beyler: Pascual Jordan (1902-80) – Edward B. Davies: Robert Andrews Millikan (1868-1953) – Torsten Rüting: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) – Edward B. Davies: Michael Idvorsky Pupin (1858-1935) – Martin Riexinger: Abdus Salam (1926-96) – Mark Stoll: Edward Osborne Wilson (b. 1929) – Ronald L. Numbers: Epilogue: Science, Secularization, and Privatization.
The Editor: Nicolaas A. Rupke is Lower Saxony Research Professor of the History of Science at Göttingen University. With a doctorate from Princeton, he held research positions at Oxford and the Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University. His monographs Alexander von Humboldt: A Metabiography (2008) and Richard Owen. Biology without Darwin (2009) were recently reissued. Rupke is a fellow of Germany’s National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Göttingen Academy of Sciences.
«The strength of Rupke’s volume lies both in the judicious
selection of eight particularly interesting scientists whose
stories blend well together and in his recruitment of eight
brilliantly qualified authors ... [T]he truly remarkable feature of
this collection is the uniformly high standard of presentation in
all these diverse and engaging biographical essays.» (Owen
Gingerich in Perspectives on Sciences and Christian Faith on the
first edition)
«[T]he essays show scientists engaged as public intellectuals and
are therefore relevant to scholars interested in science and
religion in public life.» (Ruth Barton in History and Philosophy of
the Life Sciences on the first edition)
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