LEADER 05268nam 2200637 450 001 9910459604603321 005 20210209111259.0 010 $a0-19-157929-7 035 $a(CKB)2670000000084950 035 $a(EBL)510310 035 $a(OCoLC)727645800 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000559113 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12197562 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559113 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10566686 035 $a(PQKB)10807434 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5824834 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC510310 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL510310 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000084950 100 $a20190726e20072002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEurekas and euphorias $ethe Oxford book of scientific anecdotes /$fWalter Gratzer 210 1$aOxford :$cOxford University Press,$d2007. 215 $a1 online resource (664 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-19-860940-X 311 $a0-19-280403-0 327 $aCover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 The great stench; 2 Culture clash; 3 The reveries of Kekule?; 4 Rontgen's rays; 5 Light on sweetness: the discovery of aspartame; 6 Otto Stern's sulphurous cigars; 7 Metchnikoff restored to life; 8 An ill wind; 9 Marie Curie and the Immortals; 10 'Every integer his personal friend': Hardy visits Ramanujan; 11 David Hilbert's eulogy; 12 Rabi meets his match; 13 The Bucklands explode a miracle; 14 Farmyard thermodynamics; 15 Newton ponders; 16 Rutherford finds a solution; 17 The vanishing blackboard; 18 Cats and dogmas 327 $a19 But what use is it?20 Unlocking the chains; 21 Of life and death; 22 Mathematical peril; 23 Fortune favours the ham fist; 24 To discern a true vocation; 25 The Pauli principle; 26 The first eureka; 27 Lordly disdain; 28 A martyr to science; 29 The marble and the mop; 30 Pythagoras's theme; 31 New ways with barometers; 32 The professor remembers; 33 Dalton's daltonism; 34 The trick of the tick; 35 Comfort in adversity; 36 Winter in Paris: Becquerel and the discovery of radioactivity; 37 The unbreakable cypher; 38 Two hundred monks aleaping and the devil in the bottle 327 $a39 The success of the operation and the death of the patient40 Pendant professor; 41 Feud; 42 The man of few words; 43 Mauled by the Bulldog; 44 Damping the canine rotor; 45 Nemesis in Nancy; 46 Mathematician's melodrama; 47 Ben Franklin stills the waves; 48 Fraternal fire; 49 The wages of sin; 50 Loving an enzyme; 51 The poltergeist next door; 52 The problem solver; 53 The Resonance Bridge 88; 54 A laboratory libation; 55 Slot machine yields jackpot; 56 Shooting down Venus; 57 None so blind; 58 Raising the dead; 59 Vibrios in Vienna; 60 Drowning the telephone; 61 Trouble at t'lab 327 $a62 The child is father to the man63 Hooke's tease; 64 Know your adversary; 65 The divine spark comes by night; 66 Following by example; 67 Science for survival; 68 The hounding of J. J. Sylvester; 69 The quiet American; 70 Solving the insoluble; 71 A sceptic confounded; 72 Wrong experiment, right conclusion; 73 Old soldiers never die; 74 A case of night starvation; 75 Fortunate furtive encounter; 76 Eddington's disobedient conscience; 77 Smoking for the Fu?hrer; 78 Polish and perish; 79 Baccy and quanta; 80 The country doctor, his captive, and the professor; 81 Whispers from the void 327 $a82 The lying stones of Mount Eivelstadt83 The mind of a mathematician; 84 The old melon; 85 Strong medicine; 86 A Russian tragedy; 87 The way of the world; 88 Tug of war on the thread of life; 89 The trivial and profound; 90 Phlogiston consigned to flames; 91 The errant compass; 92 Liberation by fire; 93 How small is small?; 94 Seeing sparks; 95 A Victorian tragedy, a twentieth-century sequel; 96 A visit to the Fu?hrer; 97 Butterfly in Beijing; 98 Cook knows best; 99 Chemistry in the kitchen: the discovery of nitrocellulose; 100 The living fossil; 101 The sound of physics; 102 Grand Guignol 327 $a103 The mathematical wallpaper 330 $aThe march of science has never proceeded smoothly. It has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, and by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. It has seen deep intellectual friendships, as well as ferocious animosities, and once in a while acts of theft and malice, deceit, and even a hoax or two. Scientists come in all shapes - the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, theenvious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and t 606 $aScience$vAnecdotes 606 $aDiscoveries in science$vAnecdotes 606 $aScientists$vAnecdotes 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScience 615 0$aDiscoveries in science 615 0$aScientists 676 $a500 676 $a502 700 $aGratzer$b W. B$g(Walter Bruno),$f1932-$0927932 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459604603321 996 $aEurekas and euphorias$92479679 997 $aUNINA