ARTS OF EMINENT SCIENTISTS, THE

Scientists as artists?! The idea may sound strange, even unlikely, yet The Arts of Eminent Scientists demonstrates that many of the world's most respected scientists have been extraordinarily talented amateur, even professional, artists.

56 scientists, 40 of them Nobel Prize winners or nominees, produced the rarely- or never-before-seen paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, textile art, jewelry, and bespoke puzzles that illustrate this book. A brief text describes the motivations that induced each scientist to devote time and energy to making art and draws out the connections between their arts and their professional and private lives.

Surprisingly, the arts have been much more than just a relaxing pastime for most of these scientists. Many connect their arts directly to their scientific creativity. Their arts make them better observers, visual and kinesthetic imagers, pattern recognizers and pattern formers, more skilled experimental manipulators, and better communicators. Some find in the arts useful analogies or phenomena worthy of scientific investigation. Most consider themselves multi-minded, some amalgam of scientist-artist.

Here, then, is a glimpse into a world of beauty and extraordinary expressiveness that has too long been hidden away in private collections or between laboratory walls. Contained within it are practical lessons about the nurture of scientific creativity and tested strategies for integrating arts into STEM education. The lived experience of some of the most successful scientists of all time also offers insights as well into C P Snow's 'Two Cultures' divide, the commonalities of artistic and scientific aesthetics, and so much more.

Contents:

• Acknowledgments
• About the Author
• Introduction: 'The Greatest Scientists Are Artists As Well'
• Banting, Sir Frederick (1891–1941), Canada. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1923
• Bateson, William (1861–1926), Britain. Genetics, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Best, Charles (1899–1978), Canada. Fellow of the Royal Society
• Bhabha, Homi J (1909–1966), India. Physics, Fellow of the Royal Society, Nominated Five Times for the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Bragg, Sir William H (1862–1942), Australia/Britain; and Bragg, Sir William L (1890–1971), Australia/Britain. Shared Nobel Prize, Physics, 1915
• Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane (1899–1985), Australia. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1960
• Cajal, Santiago Ramón y (1852–1934), Spain. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1906
• Campbell, William C ((1930–), Ireland/United States. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 2015
• Chatton Édouard (1883–1947), France. Microbiology, Académie des Sciences
• De Gennes, Pierre-Gilles (1932–2007), France. Nobel Prize, Physics, 1991
• Duhem, Pierre (1861–1916), France. Physical Chemistry, Académie des Sciences, Nominated Twice for the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Elion, Gertrude (1918–1999), United States. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1988
• Feynman, Richard (1918–1988), United States. Nobel Prize, Physics, 1965
• Fleming, Sir Alexander (1881–1955), Britain. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1945
• Florey, Sir Howard (1898–1968), Britain. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1945
• Frank, Joachim (1940–), Germany/United States. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 2017
• Frisch, Otto Robert (1904–1979), Germany/Britain. Fellow of the Royal Society, Nominated 14 Times for the Nobel Prize in Physics
• Guillemin, Roger (1924–2024), France/United States. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1977
• Hardy, Sir Alister (1896–1985), Britain. Marine Biology, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Hauptman, Herbert (1917–2011), United States. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1985
• Heisenberg, Werner (1901–1976), Germany. Nobel Prize, Physics, 1932
• Heller, Eric (1946–), United States. Physics and Chemistry, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Hill, Sir Leonard Erskinee (1866–1952), Britain. Physiology, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Hinshelwood, Sir Cyril (1897–1967), Britain. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1956
• Hodgkin, Dorothy (1910–1994), Britain. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1964
• Hölldobler, Berthold (1936–), Germany. Deutsche Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften
• Holley, Robert W (1922–1993), United States. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1968
• Holtfreter, Johannes (1901–1992), Germany/United States. U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Huxley, Thomas Henry (1825–1895), Britain. Biology, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Jacob, François (1920–2013), France. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1965
• Kekulé, Friedrich August (1829–1896), Germany. Ennobled, 1895. Structural Organic Chemistry
• Kroto, Sir Harry (1939–2016), Britain. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1996
• Lwoff, André (1902–1994), France. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1965
• Michelson, Albert A (1852–1931), Poland/United States. Nobel Prize, Physics, 1907
• Novoselov, Konstantin (1974–), Russia. Nobel Prize, Physics, 2010
• Nüsslein-Volhard, Christiane (1942–), Germany. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1995
• Ostwald, Wilhelm (1853–1932), Latvia. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1909
• Pasteur, Louis (1822–1895), France, Microbiology. Académie des Sciences
• Penrose, Lionel S (1898–1972), Britain. Genetics, Fellow of the Royal Society; and Penrose, Sir Roger (1931–), Britain. Nobel Prize, Physics, 2020
• Richards, Theodore W (1868–1928), United States. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1914
• Rood, Ogden N (1831–1902), United States. Physics, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Ross, Sir Ronald (1857–1932), Britain. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1902
• Schrödinger, Erwin (1887–1961), Austria. Nobel Prize, Physics, 1933
• Shechtman, Dan (1941–), Israel. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 2011
• Sperry, Roger (1913–1994), United States. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1981
• Tinbergen, Niko (1907–1988), the Netherlands. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1973
• Tomonaga, Sin-Itiro (1906–1979), Japan. Nobel Prize, Physics, 1965
• Urbain, Georges (1872–1938), France. Académie des Sciences, Physical Chemistry, Nominated 56 Times for the Nobel Prize
• van't Hoff, Jacobus H (1852–1911), the Netherlands. Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1901
• Vroman, Leo (1915–2014), the Netherlands. Physiology
• Waddington, Conrad H (1905–1975), Britain. Embryology, Fellow of the Royal Society
• Wieschaus, Eric F (1947–), United States. Nobel Prize, Physiology or Medicine, 1995
• Wilson, Robert Rathbun (1914–2000), United States. Physics, U.S. National Academy of Sciences
• Wood, Robert W (1868–1995), United States. Physics, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Nominated 39 Times for the Nobel Prize
• Yukawa, Hideki (1907–1981), Japan. Nobel Prize, Physics, 1949
• Conclusions: Why Art Matters to Scientists
• References
• Index

Readership: General educated public, of interest to academic and industrial scientists and artists, art historians, historians of science, science and arts educators, cognitive scientists, and those studying creativity. Anyone interested in any science, the arts, science or art education, gifted education, polymatchy, or creativity.