{"id":323,"date":"2002-08-29T14:40:21","date_gmt":"2002-08-29T14:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=323"},"modified":"2002-08-29T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2002-08-29T14:40:21","slug":"sir-john-maddox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=323","title":{"rendered":"Sir John Maddox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_324\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><strong><strong><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-324\" href=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?attachment_id=324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-324\" title=\"Maddox\" src=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Maddox-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/strong><p id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SIR JOHN MADDOX<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>SIR JOHN MADDOX<\/strong> studied physics and was chief-editor of the  renomated science magazine Nature during 23 years. He was also member of  a number of advisory Royal Commissions on environmental polution and  genetic modification.<br \/>\nIn 1995 he retired from Nature and started to finish his book &#8216;What  remains to be Discovered&#8217;. It was an answer to the challenge his then  12-year old son Bruno had faced him with: As editor of science, you of  all persons should be able to predict what will be discovered next.<br \/>\nMaddox made an inventory of all the weak spots and contradictions in  science, convinced that those would be the places where new and deaper  insights will emerge. It is Maddox&#8217;s firm belief that the whole of  nature will eventually be not only researched and analysed but also  understood.<br \/>\nAt the moment (summer 2002) he works in the cellar of his old house in  London on his book on the evolution of man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BOOKS BY MADDOX:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Spread of Nuclear Weapons (1962)<br \/>\nRevolution in Biology (1963)<br \/>\nThe Doomsday Syndrome (1972)<br \/>\nBeyond the Energy Crisis (1974)<br \/>\nWhat remains to be Discovered (1998)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/?p=322\"><strong>back to televison item<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SIR JOHN MADDOX studied physics and was chief-editor of the renomated science magazine Nature during 23 years. He was also member of a number of advisory Royal Commissions on environmental polution and genetic modification. In 1995 he retired from Nature and started to finish his book &#8216;What remains to be Discovered&#8217;. It was an answer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joswassink.nl\/insight\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}