Hargittai B., Hargittai M., Hargittai I. Great Minds: Reflections of 111 Top Scientists

Oxford University Press, 2014. - 386 p.
Throughout the 1990s and the 2000s, Istvan, Balazs, and Magdolna Hargittai conducted hundreds of interviews with leading scientists in physics, chemistry, materials, and biomedical research. These interviews appeared in a variety of publications, including Chemical Intelligencer, Mathematical Intelligencer, and Chemical Heritage. In four-thousand pages of interviews, the Hargittais had conversations with over a hundred Nobel laureates, along with many other top minds and personalities in various scientific fields.
Now, in a single volume, the Hargittais have gathered the best and most notable moments of these interviews, creating a survey of the past, present, and future of science, as told by some of the most influential members of many scientific disciplines. Figures like James D. Watson, Francis Crick, and Glenn T. Seaborg share their thoughts in these pages, in a collection that includes 68 Nobel Laureates. Without exaggeration, their backgrounds come from all over the globe: scientists from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, and Taiwan are featured. These interviews discuss many of the most prominent debates and issues in today's scientific climate. Great Minds is a synthesis of scientific thought, as told by some of the most notable scientists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Physicists
Zhores I. Alferov.
Philip W. Anderson.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Catherine Brechignac.
John H. Conway.
Mildred S. Dresselhaus.
Freeman J. Dyson.
Jerome I. Friedman.
Richard L. Garwin.
Vitaly L. Ginzburg.
Donald A. Glaser.
Maurice Goldhaber.
David Gross.
Antony Hewish.
Gerardus ’t Hooft.
Wolfgang Ketterle.
Nicholas Kurti.
Benoit B. Mandelbrot.
Rudolf Moessbauer.
Yuval Ne’eman.
Mark Oliphant.
Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky.
Roger Penrose.
Arno A. Penzias.
John Polkinghorne.
David E. Pritchard.
Norman F. Ramsey.
Vera C. Rubin.
Dan Shechtman.
Valentine L. Telegdi.
Edward Teller.
Charles H. Townes.
Martinus J. G. Veltman.
Steven L. Weinberg.
John A. Wheeler.
Frank Wilczek.
Kenneth G. Wilson.
Chemists
Herbert C. Brown.
Erwin Chargaff.
Mildred Cohn.
John W. Cornforth.
Donald J. Cram.
Paul J. Crutzen.
Johann Deisenhofer.
Carl Djerassi.
Gertrude B. Elion.
Albert Eschenmoser.
Kenichi Fukui.
Elena Galpern.
Darleane C. Hoffman.
Roald Hoffmann.
Isabella L. Karle.
Jerome Karle.
Reiko Kuroda.
Yuan Tseh Lee.
Jean-Marie Lehn.
William N. Lipscomb.
Stephen Mason.
Bruce Merrifield.
George A. Olah.
Linus Pauling.
John C. Polanyi.
John A. Pople.
George Porter.
Vladimir Prelog.
F. Sherwood Rowland.
Frederick Sanger.
Glenn T. Seaborg.
Nikolai N. Semenov.
Frank H. Westheimer.
Ada Yonath.
Richard N. Zare.
Ahmed H. Zewail.
Biomedical Scientists
Werner Arber.
David Baltimore.
Seymour Benzer.
Paul Berg.
Baruch S. Blumberg.
Sydney Brenner.
Arvid Carlsson.
Aaron Ciechanover.
Francis H. C. Crick.
D. Carleton Gajdusek.
Walter Gilbert.
Avram Hershko.
Oleh Hornykiewicz.
Francois Jacob.
Aaron Klug.
Arthur Kornberg.
Paul C. Lauterbur.
Joshua Lederberg.
Rita Levi-Montalcini.
Edward B. Lewis.
Peter Mansfield.
Maclyn McCarty.
Matthew Meselson.
Cesar Milstein.
Salvador Moncada.
Benno Mueller-Hill.
Paul Nurse.
Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard.
Max F. Perutz.
Frederick C. Robbins.
Jens Chr. Skou.
Gunther S. Stent.
John E. Sulston.
Harold E. Varmus.
Alex Varshavsky.
James D. Watson.
Charles Weissmann.
Rosalyn S. Yalow.