The human side of science : Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and other personal stories behind science's big ideas
- Responsibility
- Arthur W. Wiggins and Charles M. Wynn Sr. ; cartoon commentary by Sidney Harris.
- Publication
- Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2016.
- Copyright notice
- ©2016
- Physical description
- 364 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Description
Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Wiggins, Arthur W., author.
- Contributor
- Wynn, Charles M.
- Harris, Sidney.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-343) and index.
- Contents
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- Democritus and Aristotle ponder the existence of atoms
- Aristotle, Aristarchus, Copernicus, and Galileo seek to determine Earth's place in the cosmos
- Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, and Gottfried Leibniz argue about motion and calculus
- The battling Bernoullis and Bernoulli's principle
- Antoine Lavoisier and Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) have rival theories about heat
- Mendeleev, Meyer, Moseley, and the birth of the periodic table
- Westinghouse/Tesla vs. Edison : AC/DC titans clash
- Alfred Wegener stands his ground about continental drift
- Albert Einstein, Marcel Grossmann, Mileva Maric and Michele Besso struggle with relativity
- Part 2 : Albert Einstein's struggles continue
- Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley clash/cooperate over the universe's Size
- Disastrous consequences of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn's discovery of nuclear fission
- Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick determine the structure of DNA
- J. Craig Venter, James Watson, and Michael Hunkapiller race for the human genome
- Honorable mention mini-chapters.
Subjects
- Subjects
- Science > Anecdotes.
- Discoveries in science > Anecdotes.
- Scientists > Anecdotes.
Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2016
- Copyright date
- 2016
- ISBN
- 9781633881563 (hardcover)
- 1633881563 (hardcover)
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