Ben Franklin: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water with Reflections on the Ups and Downs of Scientific Life in General - Hardcover

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Among the many phenomena which engaged the scientific imagination of Benjamin Franklin (1773) is the fact that a drop of oil, if placed on water, spreads out to form a film too thin even to produce "prismatic" colors but capable still of "smoothing the waves". The author, formerly a professor of physiology at Duke, has used his retirement to trace historically and physically the ramifications of that observations, and has evidently had a jolly good time. He writes with genial leisure about the development of our understanding of the physics and chemistry of molecular monolayers, and the lives of the persons (Maxwell, Lord Rayleigh, Agnes Pockels, Irving Langmuir, Evert Gorter, many others) who have in one way or another contributed to that development. A relaxed and relaxing labor of love, nicely printed, with photographs and a good bibliography. (NW) Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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