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The Practice of Science

On science as it is lived: its culture, its characters, their follies and dreams

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Lives of Scientists •
Scientific Integrity •
History of Science •
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Essay | Winter 2007

Winter 2007

  • Jerry Weinberger

The Scientific Mind of Ben Franklin

Jerry Weinberger

Looking Back | Fall 2006

Fall 2006

The Last Breath of Thomas Edison

Review | Fall 2006

Fall 2006

  • Algis Valiunas

The Agony of Atomic Genius

On the tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

Algis Valiunas

Essay | Summer 2006

Summer 2006

  • Christine Rosen

The Self-Portrait of a Scientist

What memoirs tell us — and what they don’t

Christine Rosen

Looking Back | Winter 2006

Winter 2006

Discovering Pluto

State of the Art | Fall 2005

Fall 2005

Cicely Saunders, RIP

Remembering the Founder of the Hospice Movement

State of the Art | Summer 2004

Summer 2004

Francis Crick, RIP

The Man, the Mind, and the Molecule

State of the Art | Spring 2004

Spring 2004

Daniel J. Boorstin, RIP

Historian, Critic, and American Man of Books

State of the Art | Fall 2003

Fall 2003

Edward Teller, RIP

The Controversial Life of the Father of the H-Bomb

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