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Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and other personal stories behind science's big ideas
By Arthur W. Wiggins
"The human side of science" was published in 2016 - nyu, it has 364 pages and the language of the book is English.
“The human side of science” Metadata:
- Title: The human side of science
- Author: Arthur W. Wiggins
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 364
- Publish Date: 2016
- Publish Location: nyu
“The human side of science” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Naturwissenschaftler - Entdeckung - Anecdotes - Science - Science & Technology - Scientists - HISTORY - SCIENCE - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - World - Discoveries in science - Naturwissenschaftlerin - History - Science, popular works - Science, history
Edition Specifications:
- Pagination: 364 pages :
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL26454234M - OL17873201W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 946610275
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2016007462
- ISBN-13: 9781633881563
- ISBN-10: 1633881563
- All ISBNs: 1633881563 - 9781633881563
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"The human side of science" Table Of Contents:
- 1- Introduction : science's evaluation system
- 2- Democritus and Aristotle ponder the existence of atoms
- 3- Aristotle, Aristarchus, Copernicus, and Galileo seek to determine Earth's place in the cosmos
- 4- Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, and Gottfried Leibniz argue about motion and calculus
- 5- The battling Bernoullis and Bernoulli's principle
- 6- Antoine Lavoisier and Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) have rival theories about heat
- 7- Mendeleev, Meyer, Moseley, and the birth of the periodic table
- 8- Westinghouse and Tesla vs. Edison : AC/DC titans clash
- 9- Alfred Wegener stands his ground about continental drift
- 10- Albert Einstein, Marcel Grossmann, Mileva Maric and Michele Besso struggle with relativity
- 11- Albert Einstein's struggles continue
- 12- Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley clash/cooperate over the universe's size
- 13- Disastrous consequences of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn's discovery of nuclear fission
- 14- Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick determine the structure of DNA
- 15- J. Craig Venter, James Watson, and Michael Hunkapiller race for the human genome
- 16- Ten honorable mention mini-chapters.
"The human side of science" Description:
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With tongue-in-cheek illustrations by renowned science cartoonist Sidney Harris, this book takes the reader behind the scenes of scientific research to shine new light on the all-too-human people who do science.
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