Review of 'Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This is an impressive book, mixing philosophy, literature and good old molecular biology. And all of this mixed with the Resistance in Paris during WW2 and spy-stories of the cold war. Before discovering this book I wasn't too aware of the contributions that Camus and Monod made to the Resistance, neither did I know that Monod then helped to smuggle people out of Hungary during the cold war, more or less all while finding out about mRNA.
If you have some interest in the history of science and modern philosophy and/or some interest in WW2 you will like this book.