Gerald Holton is the dean of Einstein scholars.
   --Dennis Overbye, New York Times

In Victory and Vexation in Science, Gerald Holton, a physicist and historian of science at Harvard University, provides a series of illuminating historical and biographical essays on science and scientists in the twentieth century. This thought-provoking book mixes reminiscence with scholarly reflection, drawing on Holton's deep knowledge of scientists and their intellectual, religious and social engagements.
   --Daniel J. Kevles, Nature

Gerald Holton has moved as no one else in our time from a truly distinguished life in science to the effect of manners, morals, and much else in the world, on scientific discovery. This is a most engaging book and an indispensable guide.
   --John Kenneth Galbraith

Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, and Research Professor of History of Science, Harvard University.

Read More by Gerald Holton:

• The Scientific Imagination, With a New Introduction
• The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens
• Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein, Second Edition
• Science and Anti-Science
• Einstein, History, and Other Passions: The Rebellion against Science at the End of the Twentieth Century