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Author: Richard Reeves Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393057508 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 232
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In this new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford, the 20th centurys greatest experimental physicist, Reeves portrays a ruddy, genial man who was also a towering figure in scientific history.
Author: Richard Reeves Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 9780393057508 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
In this new intellectual biography of Ernest Rutherford, the 20th centurys greatest experimental physicist, Reeves portrays a ruddy, genial man who was also a towering figure in scientific history.
Author: Richard Reeves Publisher: W. W. Norton ISBN: 9780393333695 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 0
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"Starred Review. Reeves deploys his considerable writing skill in portraying Rutherford's personality ... capturing the full aspect of the man."—Booklist Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier—a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work revolutionized modern physics. Among his discoveries were the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the "half-life" of radioactive materials. Rutherford and the young men working under him were the first to split the atom, unlocking tremendous forces—forces, as Rutherford himself predicted, that would bring us the atomic bomb. In Richard Reeves's hands, Rutherford comes alive, a ruddy, genial man and a pivotal figure in scientific history.
Author: Richard Reeves Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393076040 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 208
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"Starred Review. Reeves deploys his considerable writing skill in portraying Rutherford's personality ... capturing the full aspect of the man."—Booklist Born in colonial New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford grew up on the frontier—a different world from Cambridge, to which he won a scholarship at the age of twenty-four. His work revolutionized modern physics. Among his discoveries were the orbital structure of the atom and the concept of the "half-life" of radioactive materials. Rutherford and the young men working under him were the first to split the atom, unlocking tremendous forces—forces, as Rutherford himself predicted, that would bring us the atomic bomb. In Richard Reeves's hands, Rutherford comes alive, a ruddy, genial man and a pivotal figure in scientific history.
Author: Roberta Ness Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199976597 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 236
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Shows how the most creative minds in science used tools that can help us improve our creative abilities. Geniuses are not omnipotent. They are just very skilled at employing the creativity toolbox highlighted in this book, including finding the right question, observation, analogy, changing point of view, dissection, reorganization, the power of groups, and frame shifting.
Author: Nicholas Mee Publisher: Quantum Wave Publishing ISBN: 0957274602 Category : Higgs bosons Languages : en Pages : 439
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"Higgs Force cuenta la increíble historia del descubrimiento científico más importante de los últimos 50 años. Comienza con las ideas de los filósofos griegos hace más de dos mil años, y nos lleva a un viaje a través de muchos de los descubrimientos científicos más importantes de la historia antes de ponernos al día con el descubrimiento de la partícula de Higgs en julio de 2012."--P. [4] de cubierta.
Author: Andrew Ede Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1442604522 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Volume II begins with the work of Sir Isaac Newton and ends with a new section on climate change.
Author: Andrew Ede Publisher: University of Toronto Press ISBN: 1487535236 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 336
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In A History of Science in Society, Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. Volume II covers the period from the scientific revolution to the present day. The fourth edition of this bestselling textbook brings the narrative right up into the twenty-first century by incorporating the COVID-19 pandemic. The edition also adds content on Indigenous and non-Western science as well as three new "Connections" case study features. The text is accompanied by over sixty images and maps that illustrate key developments in the history of science. Essay questions, chapter timelines, a further readings section, and an index provide additional support for students.
Author: Hans R. Kricheldorf Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319303880 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 285
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This book advocates the importance and value of errors for the progress of scientific research! Hans Kricheldorf explains that most of the great scientific achievements are based on an iterative process (an ‘innate self-healing mechanism’): errors are committed, being checked over and over again, through which finally new findings and knowledge can arise. New ideas are often first confronted with refusal. This is so not only in real life, but also in scientific and medical research. The author outlines in this book how great ideas had to ripen over time before winning recognition and being accepted. The book showcases in an entertaining way, but without schadenfreude, that even some of the most famous discoverers may appear in completely different light, when regarding errors they have committed in their work. This book is divided into two parts. The first part creates a fundament for the discussion and understanding by introducing important concepts, terms and definitions, such as (natural) sciences and scientific research, laws of nature, paradigm shift, and progress (in science). It compares natural sciences with other scientific disciplines, such as historical research or sociology, and examines the question if scientific research can generate knowledge of permanent validity. The second part contains a collection of famous fallacies and errors from medicine, biology, chemistry, physics and geology, and how they were corrected. Readers will be astonished and intrigued what meanders had to be explored in some cases before scientists realized facts, which are today’s standard and state-of-the-art of science and technology. This is an entertaining and amusing, but also highly informative book not only for scientists and specialists, but for everybody interested in science, research, their progress, and their history!
Author: Richard Reeves
Author: Richard Reeves
Author: Richard Reeves
Author: Richard Reeves
Author: Richard Reeves
Author: Roberta Ness
Author: Nicholas Mee
Author: Andrew Ede
Author: Dan Hofstadter
Author: Andrew Ede
Author: Hans R. Kricheldorf