About the Book: We Are All Stardust
When acclaimed science writer Stefan Klein asks Nobel Prize- winning chemist
Roald Hoffmann what sets scientists apart, Hoffmann says, 'First and foremost,
curiosity. In this collection of intimate conversations with nineteen of the
worlds best-known scientists, Klein lets us listen in as todays leading minds
reveal what they still hope to discover-and how their paradigm-changing work
entwines with their lives outside the lab.
From the sports car that physicist Steven Weinberg says helped him on his quest
for 'the theory of everything to the jazz musicians who gave psychologist Alison
Gopnik new insight into raising children, scientists explain how