The scientific sublime: popular science unravels the mysteries of the universe

摘要

Alan G. Gross is a name that the science and scientific communication researchers will recognize and remember. He is the author of The rhetoric of science (Gross, 1990), has co-authored a work exploring the history and features of scientific article (Gross et al. , 2002) and other books. His engagement with studying how science speaks to lay audiences, how scientists and scholars address issues of communicating their findings to society, communities or talking to media and politicians is deep and his work is known by the communication scholars, but also by his many readers.