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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Why would a political scientist write a biography of a U.S. national security advisor? Biography focuses on a single individual and has no ...

Scientific biographies have the potential not only to engender interest in an individual's life and work, but also to spark re-examinations of an entire discipline. Biographers, historians, and ...

Francis Crick missed a crucial seminar in 1951, probably because he was seeing a lover. James Watson did go, failed to take notes and misremembered key details. As a result, their first model of DNA ...

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