The Best Science Book Ever
From The Guardian:
Primo Levi's haunting memoir of life as a Jew in Mussolini's Italy told through the unlikely metaphor of chemistry has been named the best science book ever written.
The Periodic Table
, published in 1975, fought off competition from Richard Dawkins, DNA legend James Watson, Tom Stoppard, Bertolt Brecht and Charles Darwin to win the vote at an event organised by the Royal Institution in London.
It beat out Richard Dawkins' The Selfish Gene
, among others. I'm a surprised that Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
didn't even make the list.
