Culture and Art of Scientific Discoveries A Selection of István Hargittai's Writings

Balazs Hargittai , PhD (University of Minnesota), is Professor of Chemistry and Chair at Saint Francis University, Loretto, Pennsylvania. He is also the Director of the Office of Student Research of Saint Francis University. He was co-author of Candid Science V (Imperial College Press, London), Great Minds: Reflections of 111 Top Scientists (OUP, New York), and Wisdom of the Martians of Science (World Scientific, Singapore) and co-editor of Culture of Chemistry (Springer) and Science of Crystal Structures (Springer). He has been active in publishing and editorial activities in addition to his research and teaching.

Istvan Hargittai is Professor of Chemistry Emeritus (active) at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He holds PhD and DSc degrees (Budapest), and honorary doctorates of Moscow Lomonosov University, the University of North Carolina, and the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and theAcademia Europaea (London), and foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Beyond his research activities in structural chemistry, Istvan Hargittai has been active in the popularization and dissemination of science in the printed media, radio, and television. His books have appeared in English, Hungarian, Russian, German, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, Japanese, and the Farsi language.