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Autore |
Saris Frans W |
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Titolo |
Darwin meets Einstein [[electronic resource] ] : on the meaning of science / / Frans W. Saris |
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Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2009 |
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1-282-59178-9 |
9786612591785 |
90-485-0830-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (175 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Darwin Meets Einstein; Contents; The temple of science; Diary of a physicist; Dear Zhong-lie; Alchemy; Worthwhile; Scientific nomads; Superheated Ice; Managing a discovery; Spy in the lab; B. Manfred Ullrich; Diary of a fusionist; Roger; Solar cells; Particle accelerators; The Silicon Age; The discoverer and the inventor; Jaap was right; Moore's law in Bilthoven; Teller in the Netherlands; The scientific life; Shopping; Fundamental research on matter; A vacuum is not nothing; Father of the atom; Who influenced Bohr?; Hooray for the electron; Decadence; Physics and faith |
Theories of everythingA mind's eye; The mother of all knowledge; A matter of civilization; Why science?; Spinoza's God; Science through the looking glass ofliterature; Sir Charles; Darwin meets Einstein |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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A witty, hard-hitting exploration of the ultimate aims of science in a dramatic form |
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