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Eurekas and Euphorias
The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes
Taschenbuch von Walter Gratzer
Sprache: Englisch

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Beschreibung
The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting wit hes' brew at the very close of the twentieth centure, the stories in "Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer.
The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting wit hes' brew at the very close of the twentieth centure, the stories in "Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer.
Über den Autor
Walter Gratzer is a biophysicist at the Randall Centre for Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Function, King's College London. He is known to a wide readership through his book reviews, which are invariably models of clarity and elegance. He edited The Longman Literary Companion to Science (published in the USA as The Literary Companion to Science) and The Bedside Nature, and he is author of The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty (OUP, 2000).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • A selection of anecdotes...

  • Cats and dogmas

  • A mathematical death

  • The Bucklands deflate a miracle

  • Farmyard thermodynamics

  • Chemistry in the kitchen: the discovery of nitrocellulose

  • Fortune favours the ham fist

  • Rutherford finds a solution

  • The unbreakable cypher

  • Mathematical peril

  • The Pauli principle

  • The first Eureka

  • Baccy and quanta

  • Hewn in marble

  • Koch on cooking

  • Ben Franklin stills the waves

  • Loving an enzyme

  • The poltergeist next door

  • Tug-of-war on the thread of life

  • The living fossil

  • Smoking for the Führer

  • and many more (some 200 entries)

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 370
ISBN-13: 9780198609407
ISBN-10: 019860940X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gratzer, Walter
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Walter Gratzer
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.05.2004
Gewicht: 0,393 kg
preigu-id: 123695245
Über den Autor
Walter Gratzer is a biophysicist at the Randall Centre for Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Function, King's College London. He is known to a wide readership through his book reviews, which are invariably models of clarity and elegance. He edited The Longman Literary Companion to Science (published in the USA as The Literary Companion to Science) and The Bedside Nature, and he is author of The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty (OUP, 2000).
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • A selection of anecdotes...

  • Cats and dogmas

  • A mathematical death

  • The Bucklands deflate a miracle

  • Farmyard thermodynamics

  • Chemistry in the kitchen: the discovery of nitrocellulose

  • Fortune favours the ham fist

  • Rutherford finds a solution

  • The unbreakable cypher

  • Mathematical peril

  • The Pauli principle

  • The first Eureka

  • Baccy and quanta

  • Hewn in marble

  • Koch on cooking

  • Ben Franklin stills the waves

  • Loving an enzyme

  • The poltergeist next door

  • Tug-of-war on the thread of life

  • The living fossil

  • Smoking for the Führer

  • and many more (some 200 entries)

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 370
ISBN-13: 9780198609407
ISBN-10: 019860940X
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gratzer, Walter
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Maße: 198 x 129 x 20 mm
Von/Mit: Walter Gratzer
Erscheinungsdatum: 13.05.2004
Gewicht: 0,393 kg
preigu-id: 123695245
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