Petit Point: A Candid Portrait On The Aberrations Of Science

In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories. Most of the characters in this collection are like those in Aesop''s fables, but in modern-day research settings. The book provides a critical account of aberrations (fortunately rare) of the scientific com...