Research Catalog

Title

Promoting the Planck Club : how defiant youth, irreverent researchers and liberated universities can foster prosperity indefinitely / by Donald W. Braben.

Author

Braben, Donald W., 1935-

Publication

• Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2014]
• ©2014

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Details

Description

xvi, 222 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Biographies
• History
• Discoveries in science
• Science > History
• Scientists > Biography

Genre/Form

• History
• Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Accidents, coincidences and the luck of the draw : how Benjamin Thompson and Humphry Davy enabled Michael Faraday to electrify the world -- Science, technology and economic growth : can their magical relationships be controlled? -- Max Planck : a reluctant revolutionary with a hunger of the soul -- Physics golden age : "Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive/But to be young was very heaven" -- Oswald T Avery : a modest diminutive introverted scientific heavyweight -- Barbara Mcclintock (1902-1992) : a patient integrating maverick interpreter of living systems -- Charles Townes : a meticulously careful scientific adventurer -- Carl Woese : a staunch advocate for classical biology. Molecular biologists can read the notes in the score but they can't hear the music? -- Peter Mitchell : a high-minded creative and courageous bioenergetics accountant -- Harry Kroto : an artistic adventurous chemist with a flair for astrophysics -- John Mattick : a prominent critic of dogma and a pioneer of the idea that genomes contain hidden sources of regulation -- Conclusions: How we can foster prosperity indefinitely.

ISBN

• 9781118546420 (pbk.)
• 1118546423 (pbk.)

LCCN

• ^^2013033554
• 40023466659

OCLC

• 861966389
• SCSB-11473969

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library