{"id":7765,"date":"2022-05-10T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/?post_type=book&#038;p=7765"},"modified":"2022-05-10T15:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T20:01:16","slug":"the-thinkers","status":"publish","type":"book","link":"https:\/\/alumni.cornell.edu\/cornellians\/book\/the-thinkers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thinkers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brad Herzog \u201990<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Herzog\u2014a prolific author of travel memoirs, kids\u2019 books, and more\u2014teams up with artist Zachary Pullen to profile nearly 70 of the most impactful scientists and inventors in human history. They include not only the usual cadre of famous white men like da Vinci and Edison (and Cornell&#8217;s own Carl Sagan) but lesser-known names\u2014such as Nobel Prize winner C.V. Raman of India and Chinese-American Chien-Shiung Wu, dubbed the \u201cfirst lady of physics.\u201d The <a href=\"https:\/\/thethinkersbook.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hardcover volume<\/a> features Pullen\u2019s lush illustrations, as well as an introduction by Ira Flatow of NPR&#8217;s <em>Science Friday<\/em>. \u201cYou\u2019ll discover when you read the remarkable stories of these thinkers that science and knowledge do not run in a straight line,\u201d Flatow writes. \u201cOne success does not guarantee another. The road is filled with failure. Personal and professional. Those scientists who triumph do so, many times, after working in obscurity or battling long odds. 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