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About Sam Kean
American writer
Sam Kean is an American writer known for books that tell the story of scientific discoveries in a narrative style. He was born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and lives in Washington, D.C. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Psychology Today, and The New Scientist. He has also published eight books, and they have been reviewed positively by The Wall Street Journal, Library Journal, and The New York Times.
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- “Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us wh…”Sam Kean
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- “For his part, Mendeleev scanned Lecoq de Boisbaudran’s data on gallium and told the experimentalist, with no…”Sam Kean
- “Genes work with probabilities; they don't work with certainties. So most things that you're looking at with t…”Sam Kean
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Books by Sam Kean
The Disappearing Spoon
2019
The violinist's thumb
2012
Caesar's Last Breath
2017
The Bastard Brigade
2019
The Icepick Surgeon
2021