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Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves - 9780192804945
Un libro in lingua di Tanford Charles edito da OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2004
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Benjamin Franklin was the first to report the phenomenon of oil's power to still troubled waters and to speculate on why it happened. A century later Lord Rayleigh performed an identical experiment. Irving Langmuir did it with minor variations in 1917, and won a Nobel Prize for it. Then Langmuir's work was followed by a Dutch pediatrician's in 1925. p Each experimenter saw a little more in the result than his predecessor had seen, and the sciences of physics, chemistry and biology have all been illuminated by the work. p Charles Tanford reflects on the evolving nature of science and of individual scientists. Recounting innovations in each trial, he follows the classic experiment from Franklin's drawing room to our present-day institutionalized scientific establishments and speculates on the ensuing changes in our approach to scientific inquiry.
Informazioni bibliografiche
- Titolo del Libro in lingua: Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves
- Lingua: English
- Autore: Tanford Charles
- Editore: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Data di Pubblicazione: 22 Aprile '04
- Genere: Lingua Inglese
- ISBN-10: 0192804944
- EAN-13: 9780192804945