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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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London :
Imperial College Press,
©2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 Institution and its Davy Faraday Research Laboratory throughout the 1990s, the author had a unique vantage point to observe how places and people condition the way science has been shaped in the past and continues to be today. The author's background as a practicing solid state chemist, with a lively conce. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1860949169 9781860949166 |