BRAIN: Can an "exceptional scientist" also be an "exceptional writer of fiction"?
Dennis
Dennis Mazur
H. G. Wells studied scientist, although he wasn't exceptional in it. A brilliant maker-up of scientific fables nevertheless.
Issac Asimov: Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University. Wrote an extraordinary number of works, including Foundation and I. Robot in which laws governing robot behaviour (a robot will not kill a human being) were first propounded.
Issac Asimov: Professor of Biochemistry at Boston University. Wrote an extraordinary number of works, including Foundation and I. Robot in which laws governing robot behaviour (a robot will not kill a human being) were first propounded.
Arthur C. Clarke-mathematician and scientist from my old unversity -Kings College London-famous of course for 2001: Space Odyssey.
Just remember that even in our lifetime some fiction became real!
C.P. Snow, a physical chemist, wrote a number of novels that were highly praised in his time. He earned a doctorate in physics. Wrote a series of novels, none of which I've read, called Strangers and Brothers.
Very famous when alive, but far less known now almost 40 years after his death. He claimed, rightly for the pre-and post-war periods, up until approx. 1970, that Western society was split into 2, science and the humanities. When studying for higher qualifications as a boy, we were actually streamed like that. An artistic person was considered a specific type who could not do science, and vice-versa.
Ah, schools have so much to answer for!
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