Bill Nye books are listed at
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Nye%2C%20Bill/103-4057651-3427823.
I'd guess that more young people know science through The Science Guy than
just about anything else. Peter
At 10:53 AM 9/21/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>Lewis Thomas, e.g. http://www.alphabet.bc.ca/thomas.htm
>Stephen Hawking, e.g. http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html,
>http://www.psyclops.com/hawking/
>Bill Nye
>http://www.billnye.com/core.html?flashtarget=core.html&noflashtarget=noflash.html
>
>
>At 09:23 AM 9/21/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>I am updating a measure of "exposure to print" and to create some items I
>>need to get some info on which authors are the most famous writers of
>>science books (e.g. S.J. Gould) in the USA. I am talking about books
>>addressed to the general public and not to a specialized audience. So,
>>please feel free to let me know which one you consider to be the public
>>favorite science authors.
>>
>>Thanks for your help!
>>
>>David
>>
>>David D. Preiss
>>Yale University
>>Department of Psychology
>>2 Hillhouse Ave.
>>New Haven, CT
>>06520-8205
>>USA
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