The Sunday Telegraph London, January 15th, 2006
J.D. Bernal: The Sage of Science
BY ANDREW BROWN
OXFORD, pounds 25, 562 pp T pounds 23 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
A mixture of envy and prudence makes many scientists chary about praising the most brilliant of their young colleagues. One of the few tyro scientists of the past century who was honoured in this way was the polymathic crystallographer Desmond Bernal. His fellow undergraduates dubbed him 'Sage' in 1921 and the name stuck for the rest of his life.
Nobel laureates queued up to praise his achievements after his death in 1971. Arthur C. Clarke lauded his 1929 treatise on the ...
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