Fortune or failure : missed opportunities and chance discoveries

著者

• Kohn, Alexander

書誌事項

Fortune or failure : missed opportunities and chance discoveries

Alexander Kohn

Blackwell, 1989

注記

Bibliography: p. [180]

Includes indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

From the author of the successful "False Prophets" this book brings together stories from a wide range of scientific disciplines to provide an account of some of the greatest breakthroughs in science. It offers an examination of the often neglected role of chance in discovery. The book illuminates some of the most famous discoveries from the history of science including penicillin, radioactivity and x-rays with new accounts from microbiology and molecular biology.

目次

• Discoveries in physics - electricity and radioactivity
• from atomic nuclei to the universe
• the role of chance in chemistry and biochemistry
• chance and disappointment in microbiology
• the discovery of penicillin - design or chance?
• antibiotics
• what changes our behaviour?
• medical discoveries
• the incredible story of insulin
• what do we call a fact?

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA11166596
• ISBN:
  • 0631160876
• LCCN: 89014996
• 出版国コード: uk
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA
• ページ数/冊数: vii, 199 p., [8] p. of plates
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : Q172.5.S47
  • DC20 : 500
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Serendipity in science
  • LCSH : Creative ability in science
  • LCSH : Research