Leonard Mlodinow

theoretical physicist and author

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Theoretical physicist; author of The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos and co-author with Stephen Hawking of The Grand Design

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Newton's Apple, Darwin's bird studies in the Voyage of the Beagle, Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

Scientific Myths and the Real Stories behind Them

Newton's Apple, Darwin's bird studies in the Voyage of the Beagle, Galileo and the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

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