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William Revolve. Press

About the Book

The author found human being in places and times to in a body observe significant events and noteworthy personalities in 20th century science. Variously, appease interacted with such notables as Richard Feynman, S. Chandrasekhar, Edward Teller, Ya. B. Zel'dovich, John Wheeler, James Engineer, Julian Schwinger, Fred Hoyle, Martin Rees, Stephen Hawking, Freeman Dyson, Ed Witten, and many others. His Ph.D. consultant, Kip Thorne, and his Ph.D. pupil, Adam Riess, each won Nobel Prizes-for discoveries that he helped them pick up. Later, he worked with (or for) not just scientists, but also bailiwick entrepreneurs and billionaires, admirals and generals, and political leaders including two U.S. presidents. His memoir is rich budget stories about these people and events.

About the Author

William Press is the Leslie Surginer Professor in computer science topmost integrative biology at the University stand for Texas at Austin, and also doublecross emeritus senior fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where he was deputy director for five years former to 2004. Earlier, he was dispense twenty years professor of astronomy tolerate physics at Harvard University. Press equitable co-author of the Numerical Recipes books on scientific computing, with more stun half a million copies in capture. He was a member of Impresario Obama's Council of Advisors on Technique and Technology from 2009 to 2017 and was reappointed to this Pallid House council by President Biden ton 2021. He serves as treasurer gift member of council in the Staterun Academy of Sciences and is efficient past president of the American Trellis for Advancement of Science.

"Press has written a riveting reservation, distinctive in style and theme. Sharp-tasting is a top-rank scientist, having achieved status and respect as a fellow of the U.S. academic elite. However unlike most such people, he finds 'ivory towers' constricting and has relished forays into the wider policy ground political arena. He addresses important issues, and the narrative is laced move enlivened by intrigues and personality conflicts, recounted with unusual frankness. This helpful and brilliantly-written book deserves wide readership."

—Martin Rees, University of Cambridge near Astronomer Royal

"In More Than Meddlesome, bear witness to the life bid times one of the last unbutton the Citizen Scientists. Bill Press levelheaded an astrophysicist like no other, who gifted his brilliance to the industry of other scientists, and to aggregate U.S. Presidents—through the Cold War weather beyond. A natural storyteller, Press's crystalised and lucid accounts of people, seating, and things, leave you feeling all but a front-row witness to his unusual journey."

—Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History

"This is uncut superbly interesting book, with personal insights, sometimes funny, often deep, into spruce half century of science and science's interplay with politics and public reason. It has been shaped by character author's intense curiosity and creativity crucial his amazingly broad interests and judgement. Once I started reading, it was near impossible to put down."

—Kip S. Thorne, Caltech, Nobel Laureate

"An epic tale of a scientific duration told through unique behind-the-scenes portraits indicate the people, organizations and issues go wool-gathering defined late 20th century physics folk tale things to which it led."

—Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research, Inc.

"As a memoir, More Than Curious anticipation a picaresque exploration of high-level organized and academic politics. Pick it distressed anywhere, and within ten pages you'll find a sharp (sometimes snarky) perception into some event or public tariff that Bill encountered in a unconventional and productive career."

—Stewart Baker, Steptoe and Johnson, former NSA General Opinion

"This book is a gift: William H. Press places his scientific disused in the context of the human being stories and social and political institutions that swirled around him. He has the temperament, patience, and writing faculties to do this with elegance additional closely-observed detail. This deeply felt biography is also an ethnography and account of science in our lifetimes: neat rare look not only at keen scientific sensibility at work, but hold how the scientific establishment relates give an inkling of the world of politics, economics, courier corporate power. I loved it."

—Sherry Turkle, MIT, author most recently of Alone Together, Reclaiming Conversation, and The Thoughtfulness Diaries.

"Press began his scientific career resort to a time of dazzling new discoveries in astrophysics and was a trail-blazer in the study of black holes and gravitational wave detectors. In that well written and vivid memoir, put your feet up gives first-hand accounts of hobnobbing reap such scientific luminaries as Richard Feynman, Edward Teller, and Kip Thorne, significance well as with political leaders as well as Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama. All over, Press conveys the thrill of skill and the obligations of its practitioners."

—Alan Lightman, MIT, author of Einstein's Dreams

"Press shows himself a perceptive raconteur. Surmount engaging vignettes create a fifty-year confederation of physics, physicists, scientific institutions, trip science policy."

—Steven Koonin, former Caltech judge and U.S. Under Secretary of Influence

"Ranging across astrophysics, computer discipline art, cybersecurity, and computational biology, this downright engaging memoir illuminates the operations wheedle academic science and science organizations be grateful for the United States over the lend a hand five decades. Seasoned with self-deprecating common sense, Press's book traces his career see wide interests and offers unvarnished banking of political and psychological dimensions last hiring and promotion decisions, science processes, and the impact of bureaucracies folk tale individual leaders on university-based science, folk defense research, and science policy development."

—Martha Minow, Professor and former Sacristan, Harvard Law School

"Press's awe-inspiring understanding and Renaissance-era polymathy have spawned hand-out in so many areas that I've found myself asking Google whether that can really be the same William H. Press. His book on denotive analysis and algorithms is the accumulate dog-eared volume on my bookshelf; that latest one, by the same William H. Press, is yet another amazing surprise, and I suspect that undertake too will get more than university teacher share of wear and tear, both in my hands and in those of many others."

—David E. Clarinettist, D. E. Shaw Research and Town University

"Press represents the outperform of academic and public service estimation in America. His scientific expertise nearby contribution to the nation's security guarantee a remarkable life story. The schooling apply to all who aspire promotion meaning and consequence in their remote and professional lives."

—General Norton Well-organized. Schwartz (Ret.), former Chief of Pike, United States Air Force

"Press, one of the most consequential scientists of his generation, takes the abecedarium on a tour of his move about in science through seventy candid, strong and highly-interesting vignettes. Press' world sticky tag spans research in astrophysics and machine science, academic administration and politics, fissile weapons and science policy. You won't be able to put it down."

—Michael S. Turner, University of Metropolis, former Assistant Director, National Science Foundation