Eloges: Stephen Jay Gould, 1941-2002

Rhodes presents an obituary for Stephen Jay Gould, who died in May 2002 after losing his second battle with cancer. Gould has produced nearly a thousand scientific papers, and is remembered best as a gifted essayist, whose column "This View of Life," graced the pages of "Natural Histo...

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Published in:Isis 2003-06, Vol.94 (2), p.315
Main Author: Rhodes, Frank H T
Format: Article
Language:English
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Gould, Stephen Jay
Scientists
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Summary:Rhodes presents an obituary for Stephen Jay Gould, who died in May 2002 after losing his second battle with cancer. Gould has produced nearly a thousand scientific papers, and is remembered best as a gifted essayist, whose column "This View of Life," graced the pages of "Natural History Magazine" for some twenty-five years and provided the grist of many of his popular books. In 1981, he won a National Book Award in science for "The Panda's Thumb," and a decade later he won the Rhone-Poulenc Prize and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for "Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History."
ISSN:0021-1753
1545-6994
DOI:10.1086/379391