The Independent - London, June 5th, 2001
PEOPLE LIKE stories about people, and most histories are full of tales of great individuals who change the world. This is as true of scientific histories as any other, and many scientists are as tempted as lay people by images of towering geniuses who revolutionise their craft. The truth is very different. Science progresses incrementally, hand in hand with technology, with each small step building on the work of many predecessors, and discoveries often made more or less simultaneously by two (or more) independent researchers when the time is ripe. What makes scientific geniuses special is th...
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