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Article #4962Re: scientists who write literature
From: Daniel Kuan Li Oi
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:18
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:18
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ucap22w@ucl.ac.uk (Martin S T Watts) writes: >day@fou.tr.statoil.no (Simon Day) writes: >>How about Primo Levi? >>Italian chemist who wrote a number of books and short stories, fiction >>and autobiography. Includes one book of short stories with each story >>related to an element. >And what about C.P.Snow, admittedly long since deceased? A distinguished >atomic and molecular physicist in his time, as well as a well-respected >novelist. Does SF count as literature? If so, then how about Gregory Benford who is a theoretical physicist and wrote a Hugo Award winning book Time Scape. There must be other SF writers who are professional scientists as well Daniel Oi University of Western Australia Disclaimer: I'm only a first year, What's your excuse?
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!agate!dog.ee.lbl.gov!network.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!doi From: doi@tartarus.uwa.edu.au (Daniel Kuan Li Oi) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: scientists who write literature Date: 21 Dec 1992 07:18:10 GMT Organization: The University of Western Australia Lines: 26 Message-ID: <1h3r3iINN3vr@uniwa.uwa.edu.au> References: <1992Dec10.153147.17142@statoil.no> <1992Dec16.151902.24280@bas-a.bcc.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: tartarus.uwa.edu.au