Cranks, quarks, and the cosmos : writings on science
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Cranks, quarks, and the cosmos : writings on science
Oxford University Press, 1997
- : pbk
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Cranks, quarks, and the cosmos : essays on science and scientists
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Includes bibliographical references and index
"First published 1993 by Basic Books"--T.p. verso
内容説明・目次
内容説明
Asking "How can we be sure that Albert Einstein was not a crank?", this book looks at the history of science from a general perspective. It includes an autobiographical account of how the author became science writer for the "New Yorker", and a series of profiles of famous scientists from Einstein, Neils Bohr and Alan Turing to Primo Levi, Edwin Land and Sophia Kovalevsky.
目次
- Introduction - the scientific profile
- how can we be sure that Albert Einstein was not a crank?'
- Ernst Mach and the quarks
- Niels Bohr's times
- feet of clay
- three degrees above zero
- cosmology
- a portrait of Alan Turing
- I am a camera
- Einstein when young
- the merely personal
- the chemistry of Primo Levi
- a child's garden of science
- having fun with Tom Lehrer
- a woman's place
- who was Christy Mathewson?
- science education for the non-scientist
- epilogue - some things I did not write.
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