![]() Rutherford was born in the back end of nowhere in New Zealand, but showed evidence of genius from an early age, excelling at everything he tried. Prior to reading Reeves's biography, I didn't know much about Rutherford beyond a couple of choice quotes, but as portrayed here, he comes off as my kind of guy- famously loud and intense, well-loved by his students and colleagues, and considerably more humble and decent than you might expect from the "In science, there is only physics. If it came around again, though, I might well cite Rutherford. ![]() ![]() I didn't contribute, mostly because I didn't really have a favorite historical scientist. Some time back, there was a "meme" that went through the science side of blogdom asking people to post about their favorite historical scientist. This is part of Norton's "Great Discoveries" series (which inexplicably lacks a web page- get with the 21st century, already), though, so incongruous author-subject pairing is part of the point. ![]() Richard Reeves is probably best known for writing biographies of American Presidents (Kennedy, Nixon, and Reagan), so it's a little strange to see him turn his hand to scientific biography. ![]()
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