What is science? : Twelve eminent scientists and philosophers explain their various fields to the layman / James R. Newman.

JAMES R. NEWMAN was born in New York City in 1907 and was educated there. He took his law degree from Columbia University and became a member of the New York bar, practicing in New York from 1929 to 1941. During and after World War II he held several govern ment positions, including that of Chief Intelligence Officer at the United States Embassy in London, Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of War, and counsel to the United States Senate Commit tee on Atomic Energy.

He is a contributor to many publications and has been a member of the board of editors of SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN since 1948. Mr. Newman has been a visiting lecturer at Yale Law School and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is the author or co-author of several books, among them The Tools of War, The Control of Atomic Energy, and a standard work in the popular scientific field, Mathematics and the Imagination, on which he collaborated with Edward Kasner.

Includes bibliography and Index.

Science and human life / Bertrand Russell --
Mathematics and logic / Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker --
Astronomy and cosmology / Hermann Bondi --
Physics / Edward U. Condon --
Chemistry / John Read --
Biochemistry / Ernest Baldwin --
Biology / Warder Clyde Allee --
Evolution and genetics / Julian Huxley --
Psychology / Edwin G. Boring --
Anthropology / Clyde Kluckhohn --
Psychoanalysis / Erich Fromm --
Science as foresight / Jacob Bronowski.

Scientists and philosophers explain the fields of mathematics, astronomy and cosmology, physics, chemistry, biology, psychology and anthropology.
Contains primary source material.