Firestein, Stuart

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Name (Latin)
Firestein, Stuart
Date of birth
1949
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
VIAF: 48666080
Wikidata: Q7626530
Library of congress: n 2006181186
TAU10: 000568547
Sources of Information
  • Firestein, Stuart. Making scents of the genome, 2003:
  • Source: OCLC 2014
  • LCN 0316 revised
  • Firestein, Stuart. Making scents of the genome, 2003:screen banner (Stuart Firestein, Ph.D.; Columbia Univ.)
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Wikipedia description:

Stuart J. Firestein is the chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University, where his laboratory is researching the vertebrate olfactory receptor neuron. He has published articles in Wired magazine, Huffington Post, and Scientific American. Firestein has been elected as a fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his meritorious efforts to advance science. He is an adviser to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation program for the Public Understanding of Science. Firestein's writing often advocates for better science writing. In 2012 he released the book Ignorance: How it Drives Science, and in 2015, Failure: Why Science Is So Successful.

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