En la revista New Scientist se publica un listado interesante de libros que han afectado profundamente a algunos científicos (renombrados o no tanto). Habrá que leerlos!
1. Farthest North – Steve Jones, geneticist
2. The Art of the Soluble – V. S. Ramachandran, neuroscientist
3. Animal Liberation – Jane Goodall, primatologist
4. The Foundation trilogy – Michio Kaku, theoretical physicist
5. Alice in Wonderland – Alison Gopnik, developmental psychologist
6. One, Two, Three… Infinity – Sean Carroll, theoretical physicist
7. The Idea of a Social Science – Harry Collins, sociologist of science
8. Handbook of Mathematical Functions – Peter Atkins, chemist
9. The Mind of a Mnemonist – Oliver Sacks, neurologist
10. A Mathematician’s Apology – Marcus du Sautoy, mathematician
11. The Leopard – Susan Greenfield, neurophysiologist
12. Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior – Frans de Waal, psychologist and ethologist
13. Catch-22 / The First Three Minutes – Lawrence Krauss, physicist
14. William James, Writings 1878-1910 – Daniel Everett, linguist
15. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Chris Frith, neuroscientist
16. The Naked Ape – Elaine Morgan, author of The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis
17. King Solomon’s Ring – Marian Stamp Dawkins, Zoologist