No Boundaries: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS VIGNETTES - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252029577 ISBN 13: 9780252029578

Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

Like any great university, the University of Illinois owes its prominence to the excellence of its faculty. In Lillian Hoddeson's No Boundaries, twenty-three scholars provide easily accessible vignettes about University of Illinois faculty who have made major contributions to their fields, to knowledge, and to the world.
 
Here are many of the most inspiring--and often most amusing--people whose work elevated the University of Illinois into a world leader in a variety of areas. Their lives demonstrate again and again that the work of the University takes place as much away from campus as on it: Oscar Lewis's pioneering studies of poverty in Mexico, for example, Ralph Grim's geological work in Africa, and Nathan Newmark's architectural work in Mexico City. Here also are insights into the remarkable careers of classicist William Oldfather, chemist Roger Adams, the amazing double Nobel Prize-winning physicist John Bardeen, and accounts of Katharine Sharp's work that made the University of Illinois Library into a national treasure. Also included are the legendary contributions of the University of Illinois to computer science, biochemistry, history, literary study, and electronic music.  

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The making of an outstanding University  - biographies of legendary contributions by the University of Illinois faculty.
 

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• Verlag: University of Illinois Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0252029577
• ISBN 13: 9780252029578
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 360
• Herausgeber: Hoddeson Lillian
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