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Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves
An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water with Reflections on the Ups and Downs of Scientific Life in General
Taschenbuch von Charles Tanford
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
Charles Tanford is Emeritus Professor at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and lives in Easingwold, UK.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • 1: Introduction

  • 2: Benjamin Franklin

  • 3: Friends and Influences

  • 4: The French Connection

  • 5: Pliny the Elder

  • 6: Eighteenth-Century Science

  • 7: Franklin's Experiment: The Observation

  • 8: How Small is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make

  • 9: One Hundred Years Later: Science Comes of Age

  • 10: Lord Rayleigh

  • 11: Meticulous Miss Pockels

  • 12: Comrades in the Search: The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics

  • 13: Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation)

  • 14: In Praise of Water

  • 15: Irving Langmuir - Cells and Membranes

  • 16: Biology - Cells and Membranes

  • 17: Ernest Overton: Gentle Genius

  • 18: Gorter and Grendel: A Factor of Two

  • 19: Epilogue - The Biological Frontier

  • Bibliography

  • Index

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Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe, Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780192804945
ISBN-10: 0192804944
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tanford, Charles
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Charles Tanford
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.04.2004
Gewicht: 0,309 kg
Artikel-ID: 120644159
Über den Autor
Charles Tanford is Emeritus Professor at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and lives in Easingwold, UK.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Acknowledgements

  • 1: Introduction

  • 2: Benjamin Franklin

  • 3: Friends and Influences

  • 4: The French Connection

  • 5: Pliny the Elder

  • 6: Eighteenth-Century Science

  • 7: Franklin's Experiment: The Observation

  • 8: How Small is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make

  • 9: One Hundred Years Later: Science Comes of Age

  • 10: Lord Rayleigh

  • 11: Meticulous Miss Pockels

  • 12: Comrades in the Search: The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics

  • 13: Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation)

  • 14: In Praise of Water

  • 15: Irving Langmuir - Cells and Membranes

  • 16: Biology - Cells and Membranes

  • 17: Ernest Overton: Gentle Genius

  • 18: Gorter and Grendel: A Factor of Two

  • 19: Epilogue - The Biological Frontier

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Genre: Importe, Mathematik
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780192804945
ISBN-10: 0192804944
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Tanford, Charles
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 198 x 129 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Charles Tanford
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.04.2004
Gewicht: 0,309 kg
Artikel-ID: 120644159
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