Science Literacy for the Twenty-First Century edited by Stephanie Marshall, Judith Scheppler and Michael Palmisano, Prometheus, $29, ISBN 1591020204 Reviewed by Jon Turney
LEON Lederman, ace experimental physicist, former director of Fermilab in Chicago, Nobel laureate, author and all-round good guy, has done more than most scientists for science education. At his behest, a world-class particle physics lab has opened its doors to teachers and students, and inspired many.
So it probably seemed a good idea to make education the theme of this 70th-birthday tribute volume to the great man. But the result is a bit of a ragbag. There…
