Of course scientists can communicate

Another was the industrial chemist, poet and writer Primo Levi, who when I tried to ask him about the Two Cultures debate - the apparent divide between the humanities and sciences - gently reminded me that Dante Alighieri (himself the subject of at least one paper in Nature), was a member of the Flo...

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Published inNature (London) Vol. 469; no. 7331; p. 445
Main Author Radford, Tim
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London Nature Publishing Group UK 27.01.2011
Nature Publishing Group
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Communication
Humanities and Social Sciences
Humans
Immunology
multidisciplinary
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
world-view
Writing
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ISSN0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI10.1038/469445a

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Summary:Another was the industrial chemist, poet and writer Primo Levi, who when I tried to ask him about the Two Cultures debate - the apparent divide between the humanities and sciences - gently reminded me that Dante Alighieri (himself the subject of at least one paper in Nature), was a member of the Florentine guild of physicians and apothecaries. [...] a third was the Czech poet and dissident Miroslav Holub, who wrote his occasional Guardian column in English, and asked that at the end of each I describe him as the author of Immunology of Nude Mice (1989). [...] their fame became inseparable from their gift for words.
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ISSN:0028-0836
1476-4687
1476-4687
DOI:10.1038/469445a