To obtain material for
The Canon, Angier interviewed a number of scientists, professors, and other science professionals, and incorporated their stories and quotes into her work. She asked them questions such as, "What does it mean to think scientifically?" and "What should nonspecialist nonchildren know about science, and how should they know it, and what is this thing called fun?" Most of these scientists are presently active in their field of research. In addition, many of these scientists have extensive bodies of work listed in detail elsewhere. The below list links the science professionals who Angier interviewed for
The Canon with additional details relating to their work: •
Peter Atkins, a professor of
chemistry at
Oxford University •
John Bahcall (now deceased), an
astrophysicist at
Princeton University • Neta Bahcall, an astrophysicist at Princeton University •
David Baltimore, a
Nobel laureate and former president of
Caltech •
Jacqueline Barton, a chemistry professor at the
California Institute of Technology •
Bonnie Bassler, a
molecular biologist at Princeton University • David Bercovici, a professor of
geophysics at
Yale University • William Blair, a professor of
astronomy at
Johns Hopkins •
Gunter Blobel, a Nobel laureate and
cell biologist at
Rockefeller University •
David Botstein, a
geneticist at Princeton University •
Michael E. Brown, a
planetary scientist at
Caltech •
Susan Carey, a professor of
cognitive neuroscience at
Harvard •
Rick L. Danheiser, a chemistry professor at
MIT • Frank DiSalvo, s professor of chemistry at
Cornell University •
Michael Duff, a
theoretical physicist formerly at the
University of Michigan •
Tom Eisner, a professor of
chemical ecology at Cornell • Andy Feinberg, a geneticist at
Johns Hopkins University •
Alvan Feinstein (now deceased), a professor of
medicine and
epidemiology at the
Yale University School of Medicine •
Alex Filippenko, an
astronomer at the
University of California, Berkeley • Gerald Fink, a
biologist at MIT •
Scott E. Fraser, a
bioengineer at Caltech • Bob Full, a
materials scientist at the
University of California, Berkeley •
Peter Galison, a professor of
history of physics at
Harvard University •
Brian Greene,
theoretical physicist at
Columbia University •
Alan Guth, a
physicist at MIT •
Susan Hockfield, a
neuroscientist and president of MIT • Kip Hodges, director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at
Arizona State University •
Roald Hoffmann, a chemist and poet-playwright at
Cornell University •
Robert Jaffe, a physicist at MIT •
Lucy Jones, a
seismologist at the
California Institute of Technology • Darcy Kelley, a
neuroscientist at
Columbia University •
Mary B. Kennedy, a neurobiologist at
Caltech •
Andrew Knoll, a professor of
natural history at
Harvard's Earth and Planetary Sciences Department • Jonathan Koehler, a professor of
economics at the
University of Texas •
Walter Lewin, a professor of physics at MIT •
Susan Lindquist, a
cell biologist and former director of the
Whitehead Institute • Stephen Lippard, a professor of chemistry at MIT • Cindy Lustig, a professor of
psychology at the
University of Michigan •
Tom Maniatis, a biologist at Harvard University • Mario Mateo, a professor of
astronomy at the University of Michigan • Robert Mathieu, a professor of astronomy at the
University of Wisconsin • Stephen Mayo, a biology professor at Caltech •
Elliot Meyerowitz, a biologist at Caltech •
Kenneth R. Miller a biology professor at
Brown University •
James L. Mills, chief of the pediatric
epidemiology section of the
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development •
Daniel Nocera, a chemist at MIT • Deborah Nolan, a
statistics professor at the
University of California, Berkeley • Michael Novacek, a
paleontologist and
curator at the
American Museum of Natural History •
John Allen Paulos, a
mathematician at
Temple University • Sir
Richard Peto, an epidemiologist at the
University of Oxford • Steven Pollock, a physics professor at the
University of Colorado • Kent Redford, a biologist with the
Wildlife Conservation Society • Gene Robinson, a
neuroethologist at the
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Michael Rubner, a materials scientist at MIT •
Donald Sadoway, a materials chemistry professor at MIT •
Maarten Schmidt, an astrophysicist •
John Henry Schwarz, a
theoretical physicist at Caltech •
Ramamurti Shankar, a physics professor at
Princeton University •
Neil Shubin, a
paleontologist at the
University of Chicago • Cody Maverick, a
oceanographer at the
University of Hawaii • Chuck Steidel, an astronomy professor at Caltech • Paul Sternberg, a
developmental biologist at Caltech •
David J. Stevenson, a
planetary scientist at Caltech •
Scott Strobel, a
biochemist at
Yale University •
Raman Sundrum, a professor of physics and astronomy at
Johns Hopkins • David Wake, a biologist at the University of California's
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology • Bess Ward, a
geosciences professor at
Princeton University •
Steven Weinberg, a
Nobel laureate and
physics professor at the
University of Texas •
Tim D. White, a
paleoanthropologist at the
University of California, Berkeley •
Michael Wigler, a
biomedical researcher at the
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory • Cynthia Wolberger, a
biophysics professor at Johns Hopkins University ==External links==