It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist: Great Amateurs of Science Format:Hardcover lucky breaks

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David Ewing Duncan takes "guinea pig" journalism to the cutting edge of science

excellent descriptions of the lives and experiences of both ordinary and extraordinary individuals in different parts of Africa

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It Doesn't Take a Rocket Scientist: Great Amateurs of Science Format:Hardcover lucky breaksDid you know. . . . . . that the woman who discovered the largest and most complete T. rex fossil on record was a high school dropout who became one of the world's greatest fossil hunters? . . . that the great British scientist Michael Faraday was the son of a blacksmith and had very little formal education? . . . that Gregor Mendel had time to study inherited traits in garden peas because he failed the test to qualify as a high school science