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A beautiful book. -- Frederic Raphael, Times Literary Supplement The prodigiously illustrated book is a readable treatment of an important subject. -- Booklist These four titular mid-20th century Jewish intellectuals from Germany and Austria come back to life with vigor. -- Library Journal

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Carl Djerassi, novelist, playwright, and emeritus professor of chemistry at Stanford University, is one of the few American scientists to have been awarded both the National Medal of Science (for the first synthesis of an oral contraceptive) and the National Medal of Technology. He has published an autobiography, a memoir, a collection of short stories, a poetry chapbook, five novels, and eight plays that have been staged all over the world. Gabriele Seethaler, an Austrian biochemist who became a photographer and artist, began to fuse art and science in a project entitled Identity Genotype-Phenotype. The Viennese Gallery Heike Curtze has shown her work since 2000.

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