Sean B. Carroll

Sean B. Carroll is vice president of science education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor of biology at the University of Maryland. He is the author of A Series of Fortunate Events: Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You and Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize.

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The Molecular Biologist Who Exposed the Soviet Union

Jacques Monod saw chance as one of the “secrets of life,” an idea he used to tear down all sorts of dogmas.
- Sean B. Carroll
- October 6, 2020
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The Universal Thrill of Discovery

A biologist-turned-author on the parallels between his lab work and his writing
- Sean B. Carroll and Quanta Magazine
- February 29, 2016

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Sean B. Carroll

The Molecular Biologist Who Exposed the Soviet Union

The Universal Thrill of Discovery