Promoting the Planck Club : how defiant youth, irreverent researchers and liberated universities can foster prosperity indefinitely / / Donald W. Braben ; cover photograph, Robert E. Williams

• Autore: Braben Donald W. <1935->
• Pubblicazione: Hoboken, New Jersey : , : Wiley, , 2014; ©2014
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 509.2/2
• Soggetto topico: Scientists; Science - History; Discoveries in science
• Altri autori: WilliamsRobert E
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Accidents, coincidences and the luck of the draw : how Benjamin Thompson and Humphry Davy enabled Michael Faraday to electrify the world -- Science, technology and economic growth : can their magical relationships be controlled? -- Max Planck : a reluctant revolutionary with a hunger of the soul -- Physics golden age : "Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive/But to be young was very heaven" -- Oswald T Avery : a modest diminutive introverted scientific heavyweight -- Barbara Mcclintock (1902-1992) : a patient integrating maverick interpreter of living systems -- Charles Townes : a meticulously careful scientific adventurer -- Carl Woese : a staunch advocate for classical biology. Molecular biologists can read the notes in the score but they can't hear the music? -- Peter Mitchell : a high-minded creative and courageous bioenergetics accountant -- Harry Kroto : an artistic adventurous chemist with a flair for astrophysics -- John Mattick : a prominent critic of dogma and a pioneer of the idea that genomes contain hidden sources of regulation -- Conclusions: How we can foster prosperity indefinitely.
• Titolo autorizzato: Promoting the Planck Club
• ISBN: 1-118-54635-0; 1-118-54636-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822962903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II