2 great scientists and science educator!

Just bought 2 books from Kinokuniya and will be spending my next few weeks savoring them. The authors are 2 living scientists I respect the most. They are the heroes of science education  : making science so accessible to the public, yet never compromising its rigor.

Walter Lewin

Read this ... and realize that science is all around us. I can't find any more apt title for this book. The title is self explanatory - For the Love of Physics.

He just retired a few months ago and this is his farewell lecture based on the book (loosely, I think)




Richard Dawkins

The next book is Magic of Reality. This books describes myths and folklores ( we heard quite a number of them in our childhood) from all of the world, and then, it provides scientific explanations to them. This is actually meant for children.  Well, I am still a child at heart and am sure will enjoy reading it and the nice pictures inside.

Richard Dawkins also has made a number of films, some of which are controversial, I must say. Below is a series of lectures he gave in 1991. This is the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures for Children. You can click on the print screen below to go to its YouTube playlist. This is an excellent example of how science can be interesting and be made so fascinating to children.