Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher and Their Daring Adventures

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Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2013 · Education

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Award-winning scientist, author and educator Sean B. Carroll illuminates the never-before-told account of the intersection of two of the most insightful minds of the 20th century, biologist Jacques Monod and writer and philosopher Albert Camus, during a Nov. 19 Chancellor's Lecture at Vanderbilt University.

Carroll discusses his book Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize.

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