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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813767703321

Titolo

Instrumentation for a better tomorrow : proceedings of a symposium in honor of Arnold Beckman / / Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2006

ISBN

0-309-18084-8

1-280-56748-1

9786610567485

0-309-65742-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (77 p.)

Disciplina

620

Soggetti

Scientists

Scientific apparatus and instruments

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""PART I""; ""A Daughter's Remembrances--Pat Beckman""; ""Finding the Sweet Spot of Opportunity--Arnold Thackray""; ""PART II""; ""A Lifetime of Experience in the Growth of Modern Instrumentation for Organic Chemistry--John D. Roberts""; ""Molecular and Systems Biology--Leroy Hood""; ""Compelling Science and Synchrotron X-ray Sources--Gabrielle G. Long""; ""Chemistry at the Nanoscale Frontier--Chad Mirkin""; ""Nanoscale Science and Engineering--Michael L. Roukes""

""Forensic Science and Technology--Robert E. Gaensslen""""Clinical Medicine--T. Vincent Shankey""; ""PART III""; ""The Evolving Relationship Between Instrumentation and Research--A Panel Discussion""; ""The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies""