Mostly I enjoyed reading this book and I wish there was a "3.5" to award to it. The topic, "science mistakes" was the incentive for me to pick it up. Although I have not read any other books by the author, he has developed a clear and informative writing style that makes the book easy to pick u...
Two years later they had to retract their claim, and a firefight broke out that cost a star scientist his career and sullied the reputations of several others. The University of California’s Berkeley campus had been a world leader in the discovery of new elements since 1940, when Edwin McMillan d...