MahathironScienceandTechnology:ThecompilationofthisvolumeisundertakentoplacethelegacyofastatesmanandMalaysia’sFatherofModernDevelopment,TunDrMahathirMohamad,andhispassionforscienceandtechnology.Forhim,scienceandtechnologymustservepublicinterestasawayforsocietytobetteritself,andtheworldaswell.Itencompassestwenty-oneseminaladdressesrelatedtoscienceandtechnologybytheformerPrimeMinisterofMalaysia,includinghisacceptancespeechduringtheconvocation,andalsohisearlywritingsin1960s.Theaddressesandwritingsdemonstratehiskeeninterestonthewide-rangingtopicsofscienceandtechnology,aswellashiscommandandcompetencyonacomplexdiscipline.