Roger Penrose, on the Institute of Science and Know-how, Austria
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The Unattainable Man
Patchen Barss (Atlantic Books (UK, 14 November); Primary Books (US, 12 November))
Many individuals nonetheless imagine (and plenty of scientists inform themselves) that genius is a solitary affair, that what they do is so necessary it deserves exemption from on a regular basis life and the obligations of intimate relationships.
As his subtitle suggests, Patchen Barss doesn’t endorse this notion in The Unattainable Man: Roger Penrose and the price of genius, as he charts the lifetime of probably the most influential physicists of the twentieth century. The biography…
