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- From: doi@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Daniel Kuan Li Oi)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: scientists who write literature
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 07:18:10 GMT
- Organization: The University of Western Australia
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- ucap22w@ucl.ac.uk (Martin S T Watts) writes:
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- >day@fou.tr.statoil.no (Simon Day) writes:
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- >>How about Primo Levi?
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- >>Italian chemist who wrote a number of books and short stories, fiction
- >>and autobiography. Includes one book of short stories with each story
- >>related to an element.
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- >And what about C.P.Snow, admittedly long since deceased? A distinguished
- >atomic and molecular physicist in his time, as well as a well-respected
- >novelist.
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- Does SF count as literature? If so, then how about Gregory
- Benford who is a theoretical physicist and wrote a Hugo Award winning
- book Time Scape. There must be other SF writers who are professional
- scientists as well
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- Daniel Oi
- University of Western Australia
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- Disclaimer: I'm only a first year, What's your excuse?
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