Stanford neuroscientist Barres’s short, somewhat formal but sincere autobiography, written in the 21 months between his cancer diagnosis and his death in 2017, uses a tripartite structure to highlight ...

Albert Einstein was a German-American physicist and probably the most well-known scientist of the 20th century. He is famous for his theory of relativity, a pillar of modern physics that describes the ...

Scientific biographies have the potential not only to engender interest in an individual's life and work, but also to spark re-examinations of an entire discipline. Biographers, historians, and ...