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Eurekas and euphorias : the Oxford book of scientific anecdotes / / Walter Gratzer
| Eurekas and euphorias : the Oxford book of scientific anecdotes / / Walter Gratzer |
| Autore | Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (664 p.) |
| Disciplina |
500
502 |
| Soggetto topico |
Science
Discoveries in science Scientists |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 0-19-157929-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; 1 The great stench; 2 Culture clash; 3 The reveries of Kekulé; 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
19 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 39 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 62 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 Führer; 78 Polish and perish; 79 Baccy and quanta; 80 The country doctor, his captive, and the professor; 81 Whispers from the void 82 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 Führer; 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 103 The mathematical wallpaper |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910459604603321 |
Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932->
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| Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Terrors of the table [[electronic resource] ] : the curious history of nutrition / / Walter Gratzer
| Terrors of the table [[electronic resource] ] : the curious history of nutrition / / Walter Gratzer |
| Autore | Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina | 613.209 |
| Soggetto topico |
Nutrition - History
Diet in disease - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-280-75270-X
0-19-151308-3 1-4294-2114-2 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Contents; Picture acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The Ravages of War; 2 The Scurvy Wars; 3 In the Beginning; 4 Dawn of the Scientific Age: the Road to the Scaffold; 5 The Savants' Disputes; 6 The Poor, the Rich, the Healthy, and the Sick; 7 Cheats and Poisoners; 8 Paradigm Postponed: the Tardy Arrival of Vitamins; 9 The Quarry Run to Earth; 10 Fads and Quacks; 11 The New Millennium: Profits and the Higher Quackery; Appendix: The Hard Science; Further Reading and References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458740603321 |
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Gratzer W. B (Walter Bruno), <1932->
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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