Benjamin Labatut
A historical fiction offering that provides a storytelling version of some historically significant discoveries and findings. Labatut gives us insight to the people, including all of their angst, like Schroedinger, Heisenberg, Haber and Grothendieck. I hadn't heard of the latter two, but their work is both beautiful (development of the color Prussian Blue) and tragic (gas chamber gas). It is not a "fun" read, but definitely recommend as insight to the process of development and unintended impact that every scientist/engineer should at least have on their mind.
4 stars (out of 4)
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