I wish I'd made you angry earlier : essays on science, scientists, and humanity
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I wish I'd made you angry earlier : essays on science, scientists, and humanity
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Science is no quiet life. Imagination, creativity, ambition, and conflict are as vital and abundant in science as in artistic endeavors. In this collection of essays, the Nobel Prize-winning protein chemist Max Perutz writes about the pursuit of scientific knowledge, which he sees as an enterprise providing not just new facts but cause for reflection and revelation, as in a poem or painting. Max Perutz's essays explore a remarkable range of scientific topics with the lucidity and precision Perutz brought to his own pioneering work in protein crystallography. He has been hailed as an author who makes difficult subjects intelligible and writes with the warmth, humanity, and broad culture which has always characterized the great men of science. Of his previous collection of essays, a reviewer said They turn the world of science and medicine into a marvelous land of adventure which I was thrilled to explore in the company of this wise and human [writer]. Readers of this volume can journey to the same land, with the same delight. Max Perutz (1914-2002) was a brilliant scientist, a visionary of molecular biology, and a writer of elegant essays infused with humanity and wisdom.
This expanded paperback edition of his very successful book I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier contains nine additional essays, and a warmly evocative portrait of Max by his friend and professional colleague Sir John Meurig Thomas.
Table of Contents
(* indicates new entry) Preface Acknowledgements PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS Friend or Foe of Mankind? Splitting the Atom The Man Who Patented the Bomb Why Did the Germans Not Make the Bomb? Bomb Designer Turned Dissident Liberating France Enemy Alien The Threat of Biological Weapons* HOW TO MAKE DISCOVERIES High on Science Deconstructing Pasteur The Battle Over Vitamin C A Mystery of the Tropics The Forgotten Plague What Holds Molecules Together? I Wish I?d Make You Angry Earlier Big Fleas Have Little Fleas How the Secret of Life Was Discovered Dangerous Misprints A Deadly Inheritance Darwin Was Right A Passion for Crystals The Top Designer* The Great Sage* It Ain't Necessarily So* PHOTO GALLERY RIGHT AND WRONGS By What Right Do We Invoke Human Rights? The Right to Choose Swords into Ploughshares: Does Nuclear Energy Endanger Us? What If?* MORE ABOUT DISCOVERIES The Second Secret of Life How W.L. Bragg Invented X-ray Analysis Life?s Energy Cycle The Hormone that Makes Nerves Grow How Nerves Conduct Electricity In Pursuit of Peace and Protein* Keilin and the Molteno* Growing Up among the Elements* Friendly Way to Science* The Scientific and Humane Legacy of Max Perutz (1914-2002) by Sir John Meurig Thomas* My Commonplace Book Notes and References Subject Index
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