TY  - BOOK
AU  - Livio,Mario
TI  - Brilliant blunders: from Darwin to Einstein -- colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and universe 
SN  - 9781439192368
U1  - 500 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Simon and Schuster
KW  - Errors, Scientific
KW  - SCIENCE / General
KW  - SCIENCE / History
N1  - We all make mistakes. Nobody is perfect. And that includes five of the greatest scientists in history -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle, Albert Einstein. Livio brilliantly analyses their errors to show where they were wrong and right, but what makes his book so enjoyable to read is Livio's analysis of the psychology of these towering figures. Along the way the reader learns an enormous amount about the evolution of life on earth and in the universe, but from an unusual vantage point -- the mistakes of great scientists rather than the achievements that made them famous
ER  -