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The New Celebrity Scientists - Out of the Lab and into the Limelight (Hardcover)
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The New Celebrity Scientists - Out of the Lab and into the Limelight (Hardcover)
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A new cultural icon strode the world stage at the turn of the
twenty-first century: the celebrity scientist, as comfortable in
Vanity Fair and Vogue as Smithsonian. Declan Fahy profiles eight of
these eloquent, controversial, and compelling sellers of science to
investigate how they achieved celebrity in the United States and
internationally-and explores how their ideas influence our
understanding of the world. Fahy traces the career trajectories of
Richard Dawkins, Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Neil deGrasse
Tyson, Brian Greene, Stephen Jay Gould, Susan Greenfield, and James
Lovelock. He demonstrates how each scientist embraced the power of
promotion and popularization to stimulate thinking, impact policy,
influence research, drive controversies, and mobilize social
movements. He also considers critical claims that they speak beyond
their expertise and for personal gain. The result is a fascinating
look into how celebrity scientists help determine what it means to
be human, the nature of reality, and how to prepare for society's
uncertain future.
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