Highlights in Science
Contributors: W. Bodmer, R. May, G. Nossal, T. Gold, D. Phillips, R. Hanbury Brown
Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology
Published: December 1988
Place of publication: Sydney
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780080344300
Subjects: General; Science (General); Science; Science/Mathematics
Genres: Lectures
First sentence: Science affects the lives of all peoples throughout the world and to an ever increasing degree.
Description: Lectures from internationally renowned scientists who are in the forefront of their fields of research.
Notes: A course of lectures contributed in the 24th International Science School for High School Students, sponsored by the Science Foundation for Physics within The University of Sydney, at The University of Sydney 6-17 July, 1987
Table of contents: pagenum: 1
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title: Science–What Is It? /H. Messel; pagenum: 29
title: Genes, DNA and Genetic Engineering / W. Bodmer
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label: 2; pagenum: 45
title: Tissue Types, Transplantation and Disease / W. Bodmer
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label: 3; pagenum: 62
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title: Genetics and Cancer / W. Bodner; pagenum: 74
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title: When will Pigs have Wings? / W. Bodmer; pagenum: 88
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title: Biological Populations and Deterministic Models with Apparently Random Dynamics / R. May; pagenum: 103
title: The Role of History in Biology: Stochastic Models with Apparently Deterministic Dynamics / R. May
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label: 7; pagenum: 110
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title: Voting Paradoxes, Prisoner's Dilemmas, and Other Games Animals Play / R. May; pagenum: 118
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title: How Many Species? / R. May; pagenum: 129
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title: Strategies of Natural Defence Against Infections / G. Nossal; pagenum: 140
title: Vaccines as History's Most Cost-effective Public Health Tools / G. Nossal
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label: 11; pagenum: 149
title: The Theory of Hearing / T. Gold
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label: 12; pagenum: 158
title: Pulsars / T. Gold
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label: 13; pagenum: 166
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title: Moon: The Debate About the Nature of the Moon's Surface / T. Gold; pagenum: 176
title: The Origin of Natural Gas and Petroleum / T. Gold
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label: 15; pagenum: 184
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title: Lasers / D. Phillips; pagenum: 194
title: Lasers and Spectroscopy / D. Phillips
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label: 17; pagenum: 209
title: Nanoseconds to Femtoseconds / D. Phillips
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label: 18; pagenum: 225
title: A Little Light Relief (Light and Lasers in Medicine / D. Phillips
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label: 19; pagenum: 236
title: Photons, Stars and Uncommon Sense / R. Hanbury Brown
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