Stuart Firestein
Neuroscientist and science author
Stuart Firestein is a Columbia University neuroscientist who studies the sense of smell. He wrote Ignorance, a book about why not knowing drives science.
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American Born in Philadelphia, United States
About Stuart Firestein
Stuart Firestein is a professor of neuroscience at Columbia University, where his laboratory studies the sense of smell. He has published more than 100 scientific papers and has received teaching awards. Ignorance grew out of a class he started at Columbia, in which scientists talked to students about what they do not yet know. He gave a TED talk on the subject in 2013. He has also written Failure, a book about the place of failure in science.