#257 – Brian Keating

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #257:

  1. Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor by Brian Keating
  2. Into the Impossible: Think Like a Nobel Prize Winner: Lessons from Laureates to Stoke Curiosity, Spur Collaboration, and Ignite Imagination in Your Life and Career by Brian Keating
  3. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg
  4. The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
  5. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican by Galileo Galilei
  6. Operations of The Geometric and Military Compass by Galileo Galilei
  7. The Assayer by Galileo Galilei
  8. Animal Farm by George Orwell
  9. The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku

Brian Gregory Keating is an American cosmologist. He works on observations of the cosmic microwave background, leading the BICEP, POLARBEAR2 and Simons Array experiments. He received his PhD in 2000, and is a Distinguished Professor of Physics at University of California, San Diego since 2019. Wikipedia


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