The human side of science
Subtitle: Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and other personal stories behind science's big ideas
By: Arthur W. Wiggins and Charles M. Wynn Sr. ; cartoon commentary by Sidney Harris
Contributors: Wynn, Charles M., author; Harris, Sidney, illustrator
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781633881563
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Naturwissenschaftler; Entdeckung; Anecdotes; Science; Science & Technology; Scientists; HISTORY; SCIENCE; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; World; Discoveries in science; Naturwissenschaftlerin; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : science's evaluation system; title: Democritus and Aristotle ponder the existence of atoms; title: Aristotle, Aristarchus, Copernicus, and Galileo seek to determine Earth's place in the cosmos; title: Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, and Gottfried Leibniz argue about motion and calculus; title: The battling Bernoullis and Bernoulli's principle; title: Antoine Lavoisier and Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) have rival theories about heat; title: Mendeleev, Meyer, Moseley, and the birth of the periodic table; title: Westinghouse and Tesla vs. Edison : AC/DC titans clash; title: Alfred Wegener stands his ground about continental drift; title: Albert Einstein, Marcel Grossmann, Mileva Maric and Michele Besso struggle with relativity; title: Albert Einstein's struggles continue; title: Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley clash/cooperate over the universe's size; title: Disastrous consequences of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn's discovery of nuclear fission; title: Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick determine the structure of DNA; title: J. Craig Venter, James Watson, and Michael Hunkapiller race for the human genome; title: Ten honorable mention mini-chapters.