
Paul Drayson left a ministerial job to pursue Le Mans, then drove an electric prototype past 200mph. His route through engineering, government and company building keeps bringing him back to the practical test: will the thing work?

An experimental biologist became a co-developer of L++. Now Donghoon Lee is teaching researchers to build biological models while keeping scientific judgment firmly in human hands.
Nicholas B. Dirks runs the New York Academy of Sciences, one of the oldest scientific organizations in the United States. A historian and anthropologist by training, he led UC Berkeley as its 10th chancellor, chaired anthropology at Columbia, and writes books about empire, caste, and the future of the university.