Abstract
AMONG scientific men, the degree of interest in the history of their subject varies curiously with age. As a rule, the young investigator has little interest in the origins of the scientific conceptions with which he works; it is only later when he has gained some personal experience of the ways in which new knowledge is secured, and the way in which the new developments are linked with the past, that he begins to take an interest in the history of his science and the achievements and personalities of the great pioneers.
Great Men of Science: a History of Scientific Progress.
By Philipp Lenard. Translated from the second German edition by Dr. H. Stafford Hatfield. Pp. xix + 389 + 48 plates. (London: G. Bell and Sons, Ltd., 1933.) 12s. 6d. net.
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RUTHERFORD Great Men of Science: a History of Scientific Progress. Nature 132, 367–369 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132367a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/132367a0
