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Nature Not Mocked : Places, People And Science.
We often forget that the science underpinning our contemporary civilization is not a marmoreal edifice. On the contrary, at each moment in its development over past centuries, it grew and advanced through the efforts of individuals and the institutions they created. As Director of the Royal Institut...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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World Scientific
2006.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface ; PART 1 TEMPLES OF SCIENCE ; Chapter 1 The Royal Institution: Then and Now ; The Beginnings ; Creating and Communicating Science ; The Philosopher's Tree: How Faraday Created Today's Royal Institution ; A Special Friday Night ; Christmas Lectures in Japan.
- Chapter 2 Conversation Rooms Chapter 3 The Institut Laue-Langevin: A Crucible of European Sciences ; PART 2 SOME PAST MASTERS ; Chapter 4 Count Rumford's European Travels ; Chapter 5 Humphry Davy's Quest for Research Funding ; Chapter 6 Michael Faraday as a Materials Scientist.
- PART 3 SOME FOLKS YOU MEET Chapter 7 Christian Klixbull Jorgensen (1931 -2001) ; Inorganic Spectroscopist Extraordinaire ; 'Whereof Man Cannot Speak' ; Klixbull Jorgensen and the Language of Science ; Chapter 8 Olivier Kahn (1943-1999) ; A (too) Brief Life.
- Molecules and Magnets: The Legacy of Olivier Kahn Chapter 9 Fred Dainton: Scientist and Public Servant ; PART 4 MOLECULES SOLIDS AND PROPERTIES ; Chapter 10 Magnets from Molecules ; The Pre-History ; The Chemistry of Magnets ; Magnets Without Metals.
- Chapter 11 Mixed-Valence Compounds Chapter 12 Superconductors Past Present and Future ; Chapter 13 Room at the Bottom ; Chapter 14 Molecular Information Processing: Will It Happen? ; Chapter 15 Connecting Atoms with Words ; Low-Dimensional Materials ; Linking Molecules into Solids.