這本書唐光華先生月前推薦過 謝謝他.
我大略讀一下覺得或可將21世紀的博雅教育界定為看懂此書50%
現在還可以買到......這本漢譯雖然非增訂版的全譯 不過每篇都能增長你的科學界的文史知識.我們也可以知道當初刊登這些文章的刊物之水平 New York Book Review, London Book Review......
- Series: Science & Society
- Paperback: 460 pages
- Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press; Expanded edition (December 19, 2002)
Amazon.com Review
Max Perutz is an extraordinary scientist. After training in chemistry at the University of Vienna during the 1930s, he went to Cambridge and became fascinated by biochemistry just as that discipline was becoming ripe for conquest by scientific heroes. He knew and worked with many of them: William Bragg, J.D. Bernal, Crick and Watson--and became one himself, through his discovery of the structure of hemoglobin, which led to his Nobel Prize in 1962. Such are the credentials Perutz brings to this wonderful collection of essays, credentials that he uses always to illuminate, never to dominate. In prose that rolls by like countryside seen from the window of a train, Perutz takes the reader traveling through his own life and that of many other leading scientists, giving fresh insights into the workings of first-rate minds.
We meet such characters as Leo Szilard, the inventor of the atomic bomb, who devoted his life to preventing its use, and the German chemist Fritz Haber, the very mirror image of Szilard, who became a real-life Faust. We also learn much about Perutz's own approach to science--including his involvement in a project to harness icebergs in the fight against the Nazis.
With its combination of subject choice and light, often humorous, style, this is one of the best collections of scientific essays to emerge for years. --Robert Matthews, Amazon.co.uk--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
We meet such characters as Leo Szilard, the inventor of the atomic bomb, who devoted his life to preventing its use, and the German chemist Fritz Haber, the very mirror image of Szilard, who became a real-life Faust. We also learn much about Perutz's own approach to science--including his involvement in a project to harness icebergs in the fight against the Nazis.
With its combination of subject choice and light, often humorous, style, this is one of the best collections of scientific essays to emerge for years. --Robert Matthews, Amazon.co.uk--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Review
`Review from previous edition Perutz introduces the giants of 20th-century science gracefully, writing with the lucidity and precision that he brought to his work on proteins. There is something for everyone here.' John L. Casti, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, New Scientist, 29/05/99. A splendidly varied and totally readable collection of articles, some new and some previously published elsewhere, but all the better for being drawn together in one volume ... I enjoyed the book straight through on a long flight; it would also be ideal for dipping into. Either way, the sort of book you are sorry to finish.' Ron Fraser, Microbiology Today, February 2000 If you are interested in science and what makes scientists tick, you will find great enjoyment in this book ... What a wonderful bedside read. This is a book to treasure.' Food Technology in New Zealand, August 1999. I Wish I Made Your Angry Earlier is a joy to read and captures some wonderful insights into the lives of a number of key scientists during their pursuit of knowledge.' Education in Chemistry, September 2000. This is a wholly captivating book; it has warmth, wit, and style, and not a dull sentence. I urge you to read, enjoy, and learn.' Walter Gratzer, Nature. The essays are beautifully written, with flashes of wit and humour ... I read this as a bedtime book ... when I finally found that there was no more to read, I felt quite disappointed - no more chocolates in the box!' --Nature Medicine台灣一篇評介:《真該早些惹怒你：關於科學、科學家和人性的隨筆》一出版就落伍 ...
上述出版品，是根據1998年版翻譯的（原書之「注和參考資料」和「索引」未譯/附）。作者2002年過世之後，2003年第二版，我大概對一下，多將近 10篇（原書說7篇，應未計「馬克斯•F•佩魯茨先生在科學與人文領域的遺澤」）。可參考下網址，讀首章，以及pp.467-86 的索引。
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《真该早些惹怒你》
［英］马克斯·F·佩鲁茨著张春美译上海科学技术出版社2004年1月版28.00元