A revolutionary meeting of minds

摘要

In Brave Genius, the biologist Sean Carroll tells the stories of two remarkable men whose lives intersected in the aftermath of the Second World War, sparking a rare communion of spirit. Jacques Monod was a founder of molecular genetics who, with biologists Andre Lwoff and Francois Jacob, received the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Novelist and philosopher Albert Camus was another Nobel laureate, receiving the 1957 literature prize for work "which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times". Just over two years later, Camus died in a car crash.