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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes (Popular Science)
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Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist who breaks a thermometer in a reaction vat and finds mercury to be the catalyst that starts the modern dyestuff industry; or a famous physicist dissolving his gold Nobel Prize medal in acid to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis, recovering it when the war ends; mathematicians and physicists diverting themselves in prison cells, and even in a madhouse, by creating startling advances in their subject. We witness the careers, sometimes tragic, sometimes carefree, of the great women mathematicians, from Hypatia of Alexandria to Sophie Germain in France and Sonia Kovalevskaya in Russia and Sweden, and then Marie Curie's relentless battle with the French Academy. Here, then, a glorious parade unfolds to delight the reader, with stories to astonish, to instruct, and most especially, to entertain.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 357
- Release Date:
- 2004-07-08
- Publication Date:
- 2004-07-08
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 019860940X
- ISBN13:
- 9780198609407
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 249 g
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