The Scientists : An Epic of Discovery

James, Frank A. J. L., Pasachoff, Naomi, Iliffe, Robert, Pasachoff, Jay

ISBN 10: 0500251916 / ISBN 13: 9780500251911

Verlag: Thames & Hudson, 2012

Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 8585113-6

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.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor: 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Scientists : An Epic of Discovery
Verlag: Thames & Hudson
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Good
Auflage: 1st Edition.