Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work--and maybe
even dull. But take another look. Did you know that it's believed
Galileo was scolded by the Roman Inquisition for sassing his mom? That
Isaac Newton loved to examine soap bubbles? That Albert Einstein loved
to collect joke books, and that geneticist Barbara McClintock wore a
Groucho Marx disguise in public? With juicy tidbits about everything
from favorite foods to first loves, the subjects of Kathleen Krull and
Kathryn Hewitt's Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (and
What the Neighbors Thought) are revealed as creative, bold, sometimes
eccentric--and anything but dull.