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Nozoe book signatories: The signatures of 14 chemists are presented along with anecdotal commentaries on the circumstances and research that went into their signing of the Nozoe Autograph Books (shown top (l to r): Sir Derek Barton, Carl Djerassi, Albert Eschenmoser; bottom (l to r): Roald Hoffmann, Rolf Gleiter, Ryoji Noyori). This Essay and the interactive website that accompanies the Nozoe Autograph Book project are available free-access for a three-year period at http://www.tcr.wiley-vch.de/nozoe.
Chem Rec 2013 Oct 04
PMID:The Nozoe Autograph Books: Stories behind the Stories. 2412 70

Curiosity has a curious place in the history of science. In the early modern period, curiosity was doubled-edged: it was both a virtue, the spring for a 'love of truth', but also the source of human error and even personal corruption. In the twentieth century, curiosity had become an apparently uncomplicated motivation. Successful scientists, for example Nobel Prize winners in their lectures and biographies, frequently attributed their first steps into science to a fundamental curiosity, an irrepressible desire to ask the question 'why?'. The aside made by Albert Einstein in private correspondence in 1952-'I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious'-has now become a meme. Yet in the twentieth century, science was shaped by many forces, and the practical utility of science in the real, messy problematic worlds of its formation seem far removed from the seeming innocence of curiosity-driven research. In my lecture and this paper, I ask why scientists say they ask 'why?', and trace the curious history of the idea of curiosity-driven science. In particular, I distinguish between a long and short history of curiosity in science, with the latter associated with the term 'curiosity-driven science' and the UK administration of Margaret Thatcher.
Notes Rec R Soc Lond 2017 Dec 20
PMID:2016 Wilkins-Bernal-Medawar lecture The curious history of curiosity-driven research. 3139 Apr 1