Embryologist in Eden, a review of The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester (2008), Harper Collins, New York Walter Gratzer 1 Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King’s College, London, United Kingdom 1 Correspondence: E-mail: walter.gratzer@googlemail.com WHEN JOSEPH NEEDHAM died in 1995, the obituary in The Guardian newspaper credited him with delaying pollution of Chinese cities and the planet by two decades. For in 1972, it averred, Needham had been summoned to an audience with Mao Zedong. After an exchange of pleasantries, the Great Helmsman had put the following question to his visitor: should he now give his people motor cars or should they continue to make do with their famous Flying Pigeon bicycles? Needham replied that where he lived, in Cambridge, he had always found his old boneshaker a perfectly satisfactory conveyance. Mao thanked him and indicated that this was the answer he had sought: bicycles it would be. The story deserves to be true, but Simon Winchester tells us there is no written evidence; that it should have been taken seriously, though, is an indication of the awe in
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Embryologist in Eden, a review of The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester (2008), Harper Collins, New York
Gratzer, Walter
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, Volume 22 (10): 3415
Fed of American Socs for Experimental Biology – Oct 1, 2008
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