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Oppenheimer's Shadow: His Nuclear World and Ours
by Martin J. Sherwin
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Martin Sherwin, author of American Prometheus, a devastating biography of Robert Oppenheimer, the physicist who oversaw the creation of the atomic bomb, was the recipient of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award.
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Leonard Susskind: My Friend Richard Feynman
by Leonard Susskind
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
What's it like to be pals with a genius? Onstage at TEDxCaltech, physicist Leonard Susskind spins a few stories about his friendship with the legendary Richard Feynman, discussing his unconventional approach to problems both serious and ... less so.
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Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians of the Nineteenth Century
by Alexander MacFarlane
Available on: Audio Download
Lectures on Ten British Mathematicians is a collection of biographies about famous mathematicians from the 19th century.
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Paul Farmer: Tout Moun Se Moun
by Tracy Kidder
Available on: Online Video
In his book Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder chronicles the work of Dr. Paul Farmer, a renowned infectious-disease specialist whose life's calling is to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
Walter Isaacson, author of the mega-selling, acclaimed biography of Benjamin Franklin, discusses his latest work focused on the most influential scientist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein.
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The Peace Movement in Historical Perspective
by Linus Pauling
Available on: Audio Download | Online Video
In this 1983 interview, Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling joins U.C. Berkeley's Harry Kreisler for a discussion of the role of scientists in the peace movement.
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Fathers of Biology
by Charles McRae
Available on: Audio Download
An account given of the lives of five great naturalists (Hippocrates, Aristotle, Galen, Vesalius and Harvey) will not be found devoid of interest. The work of each one of them marked a definite advance in the science of Biology.
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Far Away and Long Ago
by William Henry Hudson
Available on: Audio Download
William Henry Hudson (August 1841 – 1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina,
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Edison, His Life and Inventions
by Frank Lewis Dyer
Available on: Audio Download
A detailed biography of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of such things as the telephone, the microphone, the electric motor, the storage battery, and the electric light.
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Steven Johnson: The Ghost Map
by Steven Johnson
Available on: Online Video
The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic-and How it Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World.
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