While Saul Bellow was a U. of Chicago undergraduate in humanities, Patterson (1922-1995) was doing graduate work in science at the opposite end of campus. The Nobel Laureate's foreword introduces the quirky geochemist through ten colleagues' accounts of his Caltech career as the only person who ever refused tenure, and contributions culminating in
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While Saul Bellow was a U. of Chicago undergraduate in humanities, Patterson (1922-1995) was doing graduate work in science at the opposite end of campus. The Nobel Laureate's foreword introduces the quirky geochemist through ten colleagues' accounts of his Caltech career as the only person who ever refused tenure, and contributions culminating in
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