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Brave genius : a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize / Sean B. Carroll.

by Carroll, Sean B.

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New York : Crown Publishers, c2013.

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.

Monod, Jacques.

Nobel Prize winners -- France -- Biography.

Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.

Authors, Algerian -- 20th century -- Biography.

Molecular biologists -- France -- Biography.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Underground movements -- France.

Politics and culture -- France -- History -- 20th century.

France -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.

9780307952332 :

x, 581 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Chance, necessity, and genius -- The fall. City of Light ; Plans ; Misadventures in Norway ; Springtime for Hitler ; Defeated and divided -- The long road to freedom. Regrouping ; Ill winds ; An hour of hope ; Waiting and working ; The terror begins ; The Plague ; Brothers in arms ; Double lives ; Preparations ; Normandy ; Les jours de gloire -- Secrets of life. The talk of the nation ; Secrets of life ; Bourgeois genetics ; On the same path ; A new beginning ; Rebels with a cause ; Taking sides ; The attic -- Nobel thoughts and noble deeds. The blood of the Hungarians ; Repression and reaction ; A voice of reason ; The logic of life ; Making connections ; The possible and the actual ; Unfinished ; Messengers ; Synthesis -- French lessons. Camus in a lab coat ; Chance and necessity : Sisyphus returns -- Appendix. The science.

"The never-before-told account of two of the most insightful minds of the twentieth century--Jacques Monod and Albert Camus--and a dramatic story of how hardship and courage can unleash creative genius"--Dust jacket back.

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