Word: synthesiser
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The doctor is in. it took more than 20 years, but after six successful books and numerous articles by and about him, neurologist Oliver Sacks, 61, has arrived (all 210 burly pounds of him) as the latest two-cultures hero, a man of science as well as a man of...
Lanier is in familiar territory: he is widely considered to be the father of virtual reality. Though his name is not yet common fare on the cocktail-party circuit of the cultural elite, he is a star of an astoundingly energized new movement of musicians and visual artists who are...
While not exactly best-seller material, The History and Geography of Human Genes is a remarkable synthesis of more than 50 years of research in population genetics. It stands as the most extensive survey to date on how humans vary at the level of their chromosomes. The book's firm...
"Clearly, he is one of the outstanding evolutionary biologists," says Bock. "He laid down the foundation of modern synthesis [thinking]."
"Darwin did not persuade a great many other biologists on natural selection like he did on evolution," Edsall says. "It really was not until evolutionary synthesis of the 1930's that natural selection was built in."