The new celebrity scientists : out of the lab and into the limelight / Declan Fahy.

Celebrity scientists

Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, subsidory of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, [2015]

ix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

A brief history of scientific celebrity -- The paradoxical fame of Stephen Hawking -- Richard Dawkins's image problem -- Steven Pinker's academic stardom -- The political celebrity of Stephen Jay Gould -- Fame and the female scientist : Susan Greenfield -- The reluctant fame of James Lovelock -- The charming stardom of Brian Greene -- Neil DeGrasse Tyson's star quality -- A new scientific elite.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-267) and index.