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The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery - Hardcover

Robinson, Andrew

 
9780500251911: The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0500251916 ISBN 13: 9780500251911
Verlag: Thames & Hudson Ltd, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

The ideas, experiments, and inventions of great scientists have revolutionizedour understanding of the world around us. Theories, discoveries,and technologies—from relativity, the genetic code, and the periodictable to synthetic drugs, nuclear weapons, and brain scans—have transformedthe physical world and our lives.Copernicus, Crick, Watson, Galileo, Marie Curie: these are some ofthe forty pioneers behind modern science whose stories are exploredhere. The scientists come from around the globe and represent multiplenationalities—American, English, German, French, Dutch, Czech,Indian, Japanese, and more. Often unorthodox thinkers, they frequentlyhad to struggle against hostile contemporaries to gain recognition fortheir ideas and discoveries.All the major scientific disciplines are covered, including astronomy,biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computing, ecology, geology, medicine,neurology, physics, and psychology, as well as mathematics.

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Andrew Robinson is the author of twenty-five books in the arts and sciences, nine of them on aspects of Indian history and culture. They include two definitive biographies: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, described by V. S. Naipaul as ‘an extraordinarily good, detailed and selfless book’, and the coauthored Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. He holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has been a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science - from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science and science writers, provides an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time. Organized thematically, starting at the 'Universe', and moving smaller through the 'Earth' and 'Molecules and Matter' to 'Inside the Atom', with the final two sections looking at 'Life' and 'Body and Mind', it covers all the major scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computing, ecology, geology, medicine, neurology, physics and psychology, as well as mathematics. The Scientists will intrigue budding scientists, those fascinated by the lives of great individuals, and anyone curious to know how over the centuries we came to understand the physical world around us and inside us.

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Verlag
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0500251916
ISBN 13 
9780500251911
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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