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If you want to get to know the scientists behind the work even better, this is just the right place for you. In this section of Beyond, the researchers present books which have impacted their lives and their ways of thinking in meaningful ways. The books presented range from novels, to memoirs, to science books of all sorts. You can filter the books by genre or just scroll through the list. This is also a great way to get inspiration for your own reading!

Effrosyni Adamopoulou

A Treaty on the Family
Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker shows that social welfare programs have significant effects on the allocation of resources within families.
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Jan Peter Schmidt

Living to Tell the Tale
Some people's lives seem to spring from a fairy tale, as colorful, dramatic and full of excitement as they are. Gabriel García Márquez tells the story of his life, from his birth in 1927 to his marriage proposal in the 1950s. A story that is in no way inferior to his great novels.
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Laurens W. Molenkamp

A Life of Erwin Schrodinger
Erwin Schrödinger was a brilliant and charming Austrian, one of the greatest scientists of the twentieth century, and a man with a passionate interest in people and ideas. He was best known for the discovery of wave mechanics, which won him the Nobel Prize for Physics, but his most influential book What Is Life? served to attract some of his brightest scientific contemporaries into molecular biology.
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Ilona Grunwald Kadow

Madame Curie
Marie Curie was the first woman to achieve worldwide recognition as a scientist. Her pioneering research into radioactivity brought her a place in the ranks of the most important discoveries and her death. Curie's daughter Eva captures the colorful life with the tragic end.
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