NYT Notable Books 2020 - Nonfiction

 

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1. A dominant character: the radical science and restless politics of J. B. S. Haldane

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Subramanian, Samanth
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"A biography of J. B. S. Haldane, the brilliant and eccentric British scientist whose innovative predictions inspired Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. J. B. S. Haldane's life was rich and strange, never short on genius or drama-from his boyhood apprenticeship to his scientist father, who first instilled in him a devotion to the scientific method; to his time in the trenches during the First World War, where he wrote his first scientific paper; to...