Science since the beginning of the twentieth century - that's quite a period to cover. From Einstein's new physics to the Manhattan Project, from eugenics to the Human Genome Project - Jon Agar has taken on a mammoth challenge to cover some of the most important scientific discoveries and movements of the last century, and to do so succinctly. His book - Science in the Twentieth Century and Beyond - has been described as 'the book historians of modern science have been waiting for'. This month we spoke to Jon about how he chose to tackle the subject, and what he does when he's not writing.
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