An edition of The human side of science
(2016)
The human side of science
Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and other personal stories behind science's big ideas
by Arthur W. Wiggins
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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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The human side of science: Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and other personal stories behind science's big ideas
2016
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1633881563 9781633881563
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Table of Contents
Introduction : science's evaluation system
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 and 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
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
Ten honorable mention mini-chapters.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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