1st Edition
Creative Lives and Works Antony Hewish, Martin Rees and Neil Turok
Biography
Alan Macfarlane was born in Shillong, India, in 1941 and educated at the Dragon School, Sedbergh School, Oxford and London Universities where he received two Master’s degrees and two doctorates. He is the author of over forty books, including The Origins of English Individualism (1978) and Letters to Lily: On How the World Works (2005). He has worked in England, Nepal, Japan and China as both an historian and anthropologist. He was elected to the British Academy in 1986 and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Cambridge and a Life Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge. Professor Macfarlane received the Huxley Memorial Medal, the highest honour of the Royal Anthropological Institute in 2012.
The enigma and the mystery of the universe have attracted the human mind for ages. The book through its eloquently articulated transcripts brings forth the universe as perceived by the practising scientists on their journey of unravelling the mysteries to the epoch-making discoveries. The lively conversations over a wide range of topics from radio-astronomy, construction of telescopes, evolution of science in our everyday life, to the complexities and the wonders of our universe, presented in a storytelling manner with great skill and charm, make the book highly entertaining and thoroughly readable without any scientific technical jargon.
Purusattam Ray, Retired Professor
Theoretical Physics, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences
