Includes index.
Contents: Hubble and the expanding universe
Einstein and the wonder of light
Bohr and the puzzles of the quantum world
Wegener and the dance of the continents
Big bang, big crunch, and big bore
Fermat, Godel, and fuzzy math
Mendel, Watson, Crick, and the human genome
Hominids, humans, and the search for origins
Turing and the brain as computer, and vice versa
Freud, the unconscious, and other views.
Instability rules : the ten most amazing ideas of modern science by Charles Flowers. ISBN 0471380423. Published by Wiley in 2002. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.