Eight women, nine men, and three Nobel Prizewinners.

Physicians don't think like primatologists, or cosmologists like botanists, or mathematicians like epigeneticists. Biologist Gilles Bœuf explains, for instance, the fundamental role emotions and imagination play in his work. And yet all the people in this book are scientists. Nicolas Martin asks each one the same questions across the 17 represented fields so that readers can compare their answers in this cross-disclipinary study whose central question is this: can an life spent researching a single field wind up transforming the vision of the entire world?