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One way to begin a J.B.S. Haldane biography is in a muddy trench on the Western Front. A young British officer, already…

On a winter day in Stockholm in 1958, a reserved American geneticist stepped onto the Nobel stage, sharing the spotlight…

Any honest George Beadle biography has to begin on a patch of Nebraska dirt. In the early 20th century, on…

On paper, the Susumu Tonegawa biography looks almost impossible. One scientist, born in wartime Japan, solves a century-old riddle about…

The story told by any serious Jennifer Doudna biography begins with a deceptively simple question: what happens when a quiet,…

Any Joshua Lederberg biography has to begin with a disconcerting fact: by the time most students are wondering what to…

The story told in any serious Emmanuelle Charpentier biography begins far from the headlines about gene-editing revolutions and Nobel Prizes.…

In the early nineteenth century, if you wanted to understand the planet, you did not reach for a textbook –…

On an autumn morning in Leipzig in 2022, staff at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology threw their director…

The Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard biography is, above all, the story of a stubborn curiosity that refused to stay within the boundaries…

On a September afternoon in 1969, inside Exeter Cathedral, a celebrated scientist stood at the lectern to address Britain’s scientific…

On a humid Gulf Coast morning in the 1930s, a boy in Alabama leaned so close to a fire-ant mound…