Brian Greene won the Aventis 2000 Science Book Prize with The Elegant
Universe (Cape, 1999). So how does a superstring theorist spend £10 000?
Cat’s cradles of galactic dimensions? Did 91av pick the winner? Well,
yes and no. We tipped Time, Love, Memory, but hedged our bets by saying the
judges would pick Greene.
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