The Genius Factory: The Curious History of the Nobel Prize Sperm Bank
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780739463055 (0739463055)
Publish date: January 1st 2005
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Pages no: 266
Edition language: English
Dutch optician/astronomer/naturalist, Nicolaas Hartsoeker's Essai de Dioptrique (1694) features one of my favorite illustrations in the history of science (sorry Vesalius, De Humani Corporis Fabrica might have to take a back seat for once). What could possibly oust the masterful engravings of volume...
Thouroughly researched and documented this book is an account of the sperm bank established by Robert Graham with the sole purpose of improving the future race by donating the sperms of nobel prize winners (and High IQ males) to the women who were tested for IQ beforehand.Robert Graham himself a ge...