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The eureka! moment : 100 key scientific discoveries of the 20th century / / Rupert Lee
| The eureka! moment : 100 key scientific discoveries of the 20th century / / Rupert Lee |
| Autore | Lee Rupert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509.04 |
| Soggetto topico | Discoveries in science - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-315-02388-1
1-136-71469-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Author's Preface and Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; LIST OF PLATES; INTRODUCTION; MEDICINE; The Yellow Fever Virus (Reed, 1900); Blood Groups (Landsteiner, 1901); Vitamins (Hopkins, 1912); Insulin (Banting and Best, 1922); Brain Waves (Berger, 1929); Penicillin (Fleming, 1929); Sulphonamides (Domagk, 1935); Rejection of Transplants (Gibson and Medawar, 1943); Sickle Cell Anaemia (Pauling et al, 1949); Smoking Causes Lung Cancer (Doll and Hill, 1950; Wynder and Graham, 1950); The Polio Vaccine (Salk, 1953)
Interferons (Isaacs and Lindemann, 1957 Isaacs et al, 1957); Prions (Prusiner et al, 1983); HIV (Barre-Sinoussi et al, 1983); Helicobacter pylori (Marshall et al, 1985); Embryonic Stem Cells Grown Artificially (Gearhart, 1997); HISTORY OF LIFE; First Clues About How Life Began (Miller, 1953); The Early Presence of Life on Earth (Mojzsis et al, 1996); The Origin of Higher Organisms (Sagan, 1967); Nemesis of the Dinosaurs (Alvarez et al, 1980); 'Lucy' (Johanson and Taieb, 1976); The 'Taung Child' (Dart, 1925); BIOLOGY; Conditioned Reflexes (Pavlov, 1906); Bacteriophages (d'Herelle, 1917) The Vertebrate Organiser (Spemann and Mangold, 1924)Urease (Sumner, 1926); Progesterone (Corner and Allen, 1929); The Krebs Cycle (Krebs and Johnson, 1937); ATP (Lipmann, 1941); Bee Dances (von Frisch, 1946); Evolution Driven by Competition (Lack, 1947); How Nerves Work (Hodgkin et al, 1952; Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952); The Chemical Composition of Insulin (Sanger and Thompson, 1953); The Structure of Vitamin B12 (Hodgkin et al, 1956); The Calvin Cycle in Photosynthesis (Calvin, 1962); Monoclonal Antibodies (Kohler and Milstein, 1975); GENETICS; One Gene-One Enzyme (Garrod, 1909) Genes on Chromosomes (Morgan, 1910)Genes are Made of DNA (Avery et al, 1944); Gene Recombination in Bacteria (Lederberg and Tatum, 1946); Transposons (McClintock, 1951); The DNA Double Helix (Watson and Crick, 1953); The Central Dogma (Crick, 1958); The Nature of the DNA Code (Crick et al, 1961); The Operon (Jacob and Monod, 1961); Reverse Transcriptase (Baltimore, 1970; Temin and Mitsuzani, 1970); Oncogenes (Martin, 1970); Sequencing a Genome (Sanger et al, 1977); The Antibody Problem (Tonegawa, 1983); Homeobox Genes (McGinnis et al, 1984); DNA Fingerprints (Jeffreys et al, 1985) 'Dolly', the Cloned Sheep (Wilmut et al, 1997)ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY; Galaxies (Hubble, 1925); The Expanding Universe (Hubble, 1929); Pluto (Tombaugh, 1930); What Makes Stars Shine (Bethe and Critchfield, 1938; Bethe, 1939); The Age of the Solar System (Patterson, 1955); The Origin of the Chemical Elements (Burbidge et al, 1957); Quasars (Hazard et al, 1963; Schmidt, 1963; Oke, 1963; Greenstein and Matthews, 1963); Proof of the Big Bang (Penzias and Wilson, 1965); Pulsars (Hewish et al, 1968); Organic Molecules in Interstellar Space (Snyder et al, 1969) Gamma-Ray Bursters (Djorgovski et al, 1997 |
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Lee Rupert
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The eureka! moment : 100 key scientific discoveries of the 20th century / / Rupert Lee
| The eureka! moment : 100 key scientific discoveries of the 20th century / / Rupert Lee |
| Autore | Lee Rupert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509.04 |
| Soggetto topico | Discoveries in science - History - 20th century |
| ISBN |
1-136-71476-6
1-315-02388-1 1-136-71469-3 |
| Classificazione | 30.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Author's Preface and Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; LIST OF PLATES; INTRODUCTION; MEDICINE; The Yellow Fever Virus (Reed, 1900); Blood Groups (Landsteiner, 1901); Vitamins (Hopkins, 1912); Insulin (Banting and Best, 1922); Brain Waves (Berger, 1929); Penicillin (Fleming, 1929); Sulphonamides (Domagk, 1935); Rejection of Transplants (Gibson and Medawar, 1943); Sickle Cell Anaemia (Pauling et al, 1949); Smoking Causes Lung Cancer (Doll and Hill, 1950; Wynder and Graham, 1950); The Polio Vaccine (Salk, 1953)
Interferons (Isaacs and Lindemann, 1957 Isaacs et al, 1957); Prions (Prusiner et al, 1983); HIV (Barre-Sinoussi et al, 1983); Helicobacter pylori (Marshall et al, 1985); Embryonic Stem Cells Grown Artificially (Gearhart, 1997); HISTORY OF LIFE; First Clues About How Life Began (Miller, 1953); The Early Presence of Life on Earth (Mojzsis et al, 1996); The Origin of Higher Organisms (Sagan, 1967); Nemesis of the Dinosaurs (Alvarez et al, 1980); 'Lucy' (Johanson and Taieb, 1976); The 'Taung Child' (Dart, 1925); BIOLOGY; Conditioned Reflexes (Pavlov, 1906); Bacteriophages (d'Herelle, 1917) The Vertebrate Organiser (Spemann and Mangold, 1924)Urease (Sumner, 1926); Progesterone (Corner and Allen, 1929); The Krebs Cycle (Krebs and Johnson, 1937); ATP (Lipmann, 1941); Bee Dances (von Frisch, 1946); Evolution Driven by Competition (Lack, 1947); How Nerves Work (Hodgkin et al, 1952; Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952); The Chemical Composition of Insulin (Sanger and Thompson, 1953); The Structure of Vitamin B12 (Hodgkin et al, 1956); The Calvin Cycle in Photosynthesis (Calvin, 1962); Monoclonal Antibodies (Kohler and Milstein, 1975); GENETICS; One Gene-One Enzyme (Garrod, 1909) Genes on Chromosomes (Morgan, 1910)Genes are Made of DNA (Avery et al, 1944); Gene Recombination in Bacteria (Lederberg and Tatum, 1946); Transposons (McClintock, 1951); The DNA Double Helix (Watson and Crick, 1953); The Central Dogma (Crick, 1958); The Nature of the DNA Code (Crick et al, 1961); The Operon (Jacob and Monod, 1961); Reverse Transcriptase (Baltimore, 1970; Temin and Mitsuzani, 1970); Oncogenes (Martin, 1970); Sequencing a Genome (Sanger et al, 1977); The Antibody Problem (Tonegawa, 1983); Homeobox Genes (McGinnis et al, 1984); DNA Fingerprints (Jeffreys et al, 1985) 'Dolly', the Cloned Sheep (Wilmut et al, 1997)ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY; Galaxies (Hubble, 1925); The Expanding Universe (Hubble, 1929); Pluto (Tombaugh, 1930); What Makes Stars Shine (Bethe and Critchfield, 1938; Bethe, 1939); The Age of the Solar System (Patterson, 1955); The Origin of the Chemical Elements (Burbidge et al, 1957); Quasars (Hazard et al, 1963; Schmidt, 1963; Oke, 1963; Greenstein and Matthews, 1963); Proof of the Big Bang (Penzias and Wilson, 1965); Pulsars (Hewish et al, 1968); Organic Molecules in Interstellar Space (Snyder et al, 1969) Gamma-Ray Bursters (Djorgovski et al, 1997 |
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Lee Rupert
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The eureka! moment : 100 key scientific discoveries of the 20th century / / Rupert Lee
| The eureka! moment : 100 key scientific discoveries of the 20th century / / Rupert Lee |
| Autore | Lee Rupert |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London : , : Routledge, , 2016 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (302 p.) |
| Disciplina | 509.04 |
| Soggetto topico | Discoveries in science - History - 20th century |
| ISBN |
1-136-71476-6
1-315-02388-1 1-136-71469-3 |
| Classificazione | 30.01 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Author's Preface and Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; LIST OF PLATES; INTRODUCTION; MEDICINE; The Yellow Fever Virus (Reed, 1900); Blood Groups (Landsteiner, 1901); Vitamins (Hopkins, 1912); Insulin (Banting and Best, 1922); Brain Waves (Berger, 1929); Penicillin (Fleming, 1929); Sulphonamides (Domagk, 1935); Rejection of Transplants (Gibson and Medawar, 1943); Sickle Cell Anaemia (Pauling et al, 1949); Smoking Causes Lung Cancer (Doll and Hill, 1950; Wynder and Graham, 1950); The Polio Vaccine (Salk, 1953)
Interferons (Isaacs and Lindemann, 1957 Isaacs et al, 1957); Prions (Prusiner et al, 1983); HIV (Barre-Sinoussi et al, 1983); Helicobacter pylori (Marshall et al, 1985); Embryonic Stem Cells Grown Artificially (Gearhart, 1997); HISTORY OF LIFE; First Clues About How Life Began (Miller, 1953); The Early Presence of Life on Earth (Mojzsis et al, 1996); The Origin of Higher Organisms (Sagan, 1967); Nemesis of the Dinosaurs (Alvarez et al, 1980); 'Lucy' (Johanson and Taieb, 1976); The 'Taung Child' (Dart, 1925); BIOLOGY; Conditioned Reflexes (Pavlov, 1906); Bacteriophages (d'Herelle, 1917) The Vertebrate Organiser (Spemann and Mangold, 1924)Urease (Sumner, 1926); Progesterone (Corner and Allen, 1929); The Krebs Cycle (Krebs and Johnson, 1937); ATP (Lipmann, 1941); Bee Dances (von Frisch, 1946); Evolution Driven by Competition (Lack, 1947); How Nerves Work (Hodgkin et al, 1952; Hodgkin and Huxley, 1952); The Chemical Composition of Insulin (Sanger and Thompson, 1953); The Structure of Vitamin B12 (Hodgkin et al, 1956); The Calvin Cycle in Photosynthesis (Calvin, 1962); Monoclonal Antibodies (Kohler and Milstein, 1975); GENETICS; One Gene-One Enzyme (Garrod, 1909) Genes on Chromosomes (Morgan, 1910)Genes are Made of DNA (Avery et al, 1944); Gene Recombination in Bacteria (Lederberg and Tatum, 1946); Transposons (McClintock, 1951); The DNA Double Helix (Watson and Crick, 1953); The Central Dogma (Crick, 1958); The Nature of the DNA Code (Crick et al, 1961); The Operon (Jacob and Monod, 1961); Reverse Transcriptase (Baltimore, 1970; Temin and Mitsuzani, 1970); Oncogenes (Martin, 1970); Sequencing a Genome (Sanger et al, 1977); The Antibody Problem (Tonegawa, 1983); Homeobox Genes (McGinnis et al, 1984); DNA Fingerprints (Jeffreys et al, 1985) 'Dolly', the Cloned Sheep (Wilmut et al, 1997)ASTRONOMY AND COSMOLOGY; Galaxies (Hubble, 1925); The Expanding Universe (Hubble, 1929); Pluto (Tombaugh, 1930); What Makes Stars Shine (Bethe and Critchfield, 1938; Bethe, 1939); The Age of the Solar System (Patterson, 1955); The Origin of the Chemical Elements (Burbidge et al, 1957); Quasars (Hazard et al, 1963; Schmidt, 1963; Oke, 1963; Greenstein and Matthews, 1963); Proof of the Big Bang (Penzias and Wilson, 1965); Pulsars (Hewish et al, 1968); Organic Molecules in Interstellar Space (Snyder et al, 1969) Gamma-Ray Bursters (Djorgovski et al, 1997 |
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Lee Rupert
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| London : , : Routledge, , 2016 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The harvest of a century [[electronic resource] ] : discoveries in modern physics in 100 episodes / / Siegmund Brandt
| The harvest of a century [[electronic resource] ] : discoveries in modern physics in 100 episodes / / Siegmund Brandt |
| Autore | Brandt Siegmund |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (515 p.) |
| Disciplina | 530.0904 |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics - History - 20th century
Physics - Research - History - 20th century Discoveries in science - History - 20th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-05332-9
9786612053320 0-19-156262-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; Preface; Prologue - The Nineteenth-Century Heritage; 1 Röntgen's X Rays (1895); 2 Becquerel Discovers Radioactivity (1896); 3 Zeeman and Lorentz - A First Glimpse at the Electron (1896); 4 The Discovery of the Electron (1897); 5 Marie and Pierre Curie - Polonium and Radium (1898); 6 Alpha, Beta, and Gamma Rays (1899); 7 Max Planck and the Quantum of Action (1900); 8 Rutherford Finds the Law of Radioactive Decay (1900); 9 The Transmutation of Elements (1902); 10 Einstein's Light-Quantum Hypothesis (1905); 11 Einstein Creates the Special Theory of Relativity (1905)
12 Nernst and the Third Theorem of Thermodynamics (1905)13 Observing a Single Particle - The Rutherford-Geiger Counter and Later Electronic Detectors (1908); 14 Jean Perrin and Molecular Reality (1909); 15 Millikan's Oil-Drop Experiment (1910); 16 The Atomic Nucleus (1911); 17 Tracks of Single Particles in Wilson's Cloud Chamber (1911); 18 Kamerlingh Onnes - Liquid Helium and Superconductivity (1911); 19 Hess Finds Cosmic Radiation (1912); 20 Max von Laue - X Rays and Crystals (1912); 21 Bragg Scattering (1912); 22 J. J. Thomson Identifies Isotopes (1912); 23 Bohr's Model of the Atom (1913) 24 Moseley and the Periodic Table of Elements (1913)25 The Franck-Hertz Experiment (1914); 26 Einstein Completes the General Theory of Relativity (1915); 27 Sommerfeld - Spatial Quantization and Fine Structure (1916); 28 Nitrogen is Turned into Oxygen (1919); 29 Astronomers Verify General Relativity (1919); 30 Stern and Gerlach Observe Spatial Quantization (1922); 31 The Compton Effect - The Light Quantum Gains Momentum (1923); 32 Matter Waves Proposed by de Broglie (1923); 33 Bose and Einstein - A New Way of Counting (1924); 34 Bothe and Geiger - Coincidence Experiments (1925) 35 Pauli's Exclusion Principle (1925)36 Spin (1925); 37 Heisenberg and the Creation of Quantum Mechanics (1925); 38 Dirac's Mechanics of q Numbers (1925); 39 Schrödinger Creates Wave Mechanics (1926); 40 Born's Probability Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (1926); 41 Fermi-Dirac Statistics - Yet Another Way of Counting (1926); 42 Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Bohr's Complementarity (1927); 43 Quantum Mechanics and Relativity - The Dirac Equation (1928); 44 The Band Model of Conductors and Semiconductors (1928-31); 45 Hubble Finds that the Universe is Expanding (1929) 46 Pauli Presents His Neutrino Hypothesis (1930)47 Lawrence and the Cyclotron (1931); 48 Chadwick Discovers the Neutron (1932); 49 Anderson Discovers the Positron (1932); 50 Nuclear Reaction Brought About by Machine (1932); 51 Heisenberg on Nuclear Forces: Isospin (1932); 52 The Proton Displays an 'Anomalous' Magnetic Moment (1933); 53 Fermi's Theory of Beta Rays (1933); 54 Irène and Frédéric Joliot-Curie - Artificial Radioactivity (1934); 55 Fermi Produces Radioactivity with Neutrons (1934); 56 Cherenkov Radiation Discovered (1934) and Explained (1937) 57 Prediction of the Meson (1934) - Discovery of the Muon (1937) |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454507103321 |
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Brandt Siegmund
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The harvest of a century [[electronic resource] ] : discoveries in modern physics in 100 episodes / / Siegmund Brandt
| The harvest of a century [[electronic resource] ] : discoveries in modern physics in 100 episodes / / Siegmund Brandt |
| Autore | Brandt Siegmund |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 500 p. : ill |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics - History - 20th century
Physics - Research - History - 20th century Discoveries in science - History - 20th century |
| ISBN |
1-383-04513-5
0-19-156262-9 9786612053320 1-282-05332-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910795711803321 |
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Brandt Siegmund
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The harvest of a century [[electronic resource] ] : discoveries in modern physics in 100 episodes / / Siegmund Brandt
| The harvest of a century [[electronic resource] ] : discoveries in modern physics in 100 episodes / / Siegmund Brandt |
| Autore | Brandt Siegmund |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | xiv, 500 p. : ill |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics - History - 20th century
Physics - Research - History - 20th century Discoveries in science - History - 20th century |
| ISBN |
1-383-04513-5
0-19-156262-9 9786612053320 1-282-05332-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810181703321 |
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Brandt Siegmund
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| Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2009 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The stumbling progress of 20th century science : how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world / / Lars Jaeger
| The stumbling progress of 20th century science : how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world / / Lars Jaeger |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Discoveries in science - History - 20th century
Science - History - 20th century |
| ISBN | 3-031-09618-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Prologue -- Contents -- Part I The Great Confusion -- 1 Newton's World Formula that Wasn't One-How the Speed of Light Shook Up Classical Physics -- The Last Magician -- Blank Spots on the Map of Science -- Steam Flasks and Stills -- The Twitching of Dead Frogs -- Magnetic Forces and Magical Thinking -- Faraday: From Magic to Science -- The Last Riddle -- Small Problems and Big Contradictions -- 2 The Battle for the Atom-From Boltzmann to Einstein-How Chance Broke into the Well-Ordered World of Physics -- Locomotives and Hot Water Bottles -- Chance Enters the Stage of Physics -- A Gravestone at the Vienna Central Cemetery -- Planck's Act of Desperation -- Einstein's Solution and Other Fundamental Contradictions -- Einstein's Second Master Stroke -- The Third Revolution from the Bern Patent Office -- Wanderer Between Two Worlds -- The Contours of the Atom-Further Contradictions -- 3 Mathematics Becomes Paradoxical-Georg Cantor and the Insurmountable Contradictions of the Infinite -- The Forbidden Door -- More Major Challenges -- Rumbling Wheels -- The Lies of the Cretans and the Truth About Infinities -- New Construction Instead of Renovation -- The Big Bang -- Is It Worth the Effort? -- 4 Darwin's Hesitation and Mendel's Diligence-Life as a Plaything of Atomic Elements -- Turtles and Mocking birds -- Chance and Necessity -- Darwin's Struggle for Existence -- Man Becomes Part of the Animal Kingdom -- Darwin and Boltzmann -- The Atoms of Life -- Approach to the Gene -- New Theories Without Answers -- 5 The Ground Slips from Under Our Feet-The Collapse of the Classical Sciences -- A Short Excursion into Philosophy -- The Fundamental Limits of Scientific Knowledge -- Ignorabimus in Mathematics -- No Longer Master in One's Own House -- Early Philosophical Crises: Nihilism and Existentialism -- Total War.
From International Cooperation to National Polemics -- Whatever Happened to the Quest for Truth? -- Science in the Soviet Union -- Part II Geniuses Create a New World -- 6 The New Boys' Physics-A New Generation Discovers the Abstract World of Quanta -- Ups and Downs -- With Hay Fever to Helgoland -- Chance Shows up Again -- Dispute Among Physicists -- A Farewell to Classical Certainty -- The Confounded Double-Slit Experiment -- Dirac's Stroke of Genius -- 7 Einstein and Schrödinger Versus Bohr and Heisenberg-How Philosophy Was Displaced by Mathematics -- A Vivid Explanation from Denmark -- An Unreliable World -- Quantum Particles Without Identity -- The Fate of a Cat Becomes the Fate of Quantum Theory -- A New Addition to the Vocabulary of Philosophers and Physicists -- Einstein Provides a Solution for Himself -- Mathematics Becomes Substance -- The Current State of Philosophy -- 8 The Final Dissolution of All Matter-The Shift from German to American Physics -- The Electromagnetic Field is Quantised -- The Photon Drops Its Mask -- Fluctuations and More Permanent Emanations of Energy -- The Disappearance of Matter -- The New American Quantum World -- Particle Zoo Without Theory -- 9 Mathematics Becomes a Superpower-How Emmy Noether, John Von Neumann, and Alan Turing Changed the World -- The Unknown Universal Genius of the Twentieth Century -- A Celebrated Bon Vivant -- The Architect of the Red Button -- The Computer Sees the Light of day -- Alan Turing-The Birth of the Digital Age -- The Mathematicians' War -- Emmy Noether Finds a Compass for the Abstract World -- Cinderella at the Mathematical Institute -- 10 The Architecture of Life is Decoded-How the "Science Clowns" Watson and Crick Ended a Decades-Long Quest -- The Birth of a New Science -- Breakthrough in the Fly Lab -- The Unknown Compound in the Centrifuge -- The Molecule of Life. The Discovery of the Double Helix -- From DNA to Proteins -- 11 The Pyrrhic Victory of Big Science-How Science Was Domesticated by the Military and Industry -- Penicillin-The Miracle Drug of Modern Medicine -- Quantum Effects in Everyday Life -- A Strong Team: Quantum Theory, Logic, and Computer Science -- In the Grip of the Military and Industry -- 12 What is a Human Being?-Our Mind as a Scientifically Ascertainable Entity -- A Look into the Distant Past -- The Neanderthal in US -- An Organ Steps Out of the Shadows -- A New View of Feeling and Thinking -- Thinking About Thinking -- At the Limits of the Explainable -- Step by Step -- The Self-Model in the World Model -- Epilogue: The Fifth Virtue of Science -- References -- Index. |
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Jaeger Lars
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The stumbling progress of 20th century science : how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world / / Lars Jaeger
| The stumbling progress of 20th century science : how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world / / Lars Jaeger |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Discoveries in science - History - 20th century
Science - History - 20th century |
| ISBN | 3-031-09618-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Prologue -- Contents -- Part I The Great Confusion -- 1 Newton's World Formula that Wasn't One-How the Speed of Light Shook Up Classical Physics -- The Last Magician -- Blank Spots on the Map of Science -- Steam Flasks and Stills -- The Twitching of Dead Frogs -- Magnetic Forces and Magical Thinking -- Faraday: From Magic to Science -- The Last Riddle -- Small Problems and Big Contradictions -- 2 The Battle for the Atom-From Boltzmann to Einstein-How Chance Broke into the Well-Ordered World of Physics -- Locomotives and Hot Water Bottles -- Chance Enters the Stage of Physics -- A Gravestone at the Vienna Central Cemetery -- Planck's Act of Desperation -- Einstein's Solution and Other Fundamental Contradictions -- Einstein's Second Master Stroke -- The Third Revolution from the Bern Patent Office -- Wanderer Between Two Worlds -- The Contours of the Atom-Further Contradictions -- 3 Mathematics Becomes Paradoxical-Georg Cantor and the Insurmountable Contradictions of the Infinite -- The Forbidden Door -- More Major Challenges -- Rumbling Wheels -- The Lies of the Cretans and the Truth About Infinities -- New Construction Instead of Renovation -- The Big Bang -- Is It Worth the Effort? -- 4 Darwin's Hesitation and Mendel's Diligence-Life as a Plaything of Atomic Elements -- Turtles and Mocking birds -- Chance and Necessity -- Darwin's Struggle for Existence -- Man Becomes Part of the Animal Kingdom -- Darwin and Boltzmann -- The Atoms of Life -- Approach to the Gene -- New Theories Without Answers -- 5 The Ground Slips from Under Our Feet-The Collapse of the Classical Sciences -- A Short Excursion into Philosophy -- The Fundamental Limits of Scientific Knowledge -- Ignorabimus in Mathematics -- No Longer Master in One's Own House -- Early Philosophical Crises: Nihilism and Existentialism -- Total War.
From International Cooperation to National Polemics -- Whatever Happened to the Quest for Truth? -- Science in the Soviet Union -- Part II Geniuses Create a New World -- 6 The New Boys' Physics-A New Generation Discovers the Abstract World of Quanta -- Ups and Downs -- With Hay Fever to Helgoland -- Chance Shows up Again -- Dispute Among Physicists -- A Farewell to Classical Certainty -- The Confounded Double-Slit Experiment -- Dirac's Stroke of Genius -- 7 Einstein and Schrödinger Versus Bohr and Heisenberg-How Philosophy Was Displaced by Mathematics -- A Vivid Explanation from Denmark -- An Unreliable World -- Quantum Particles Without Identity -- The Fate of a Cat Becomes the Fate of Quantum Theory -- A New Addition to the Vocabulary of Philosophers and Physicists -- Einstein Provides a Solution for Himself -- Mathematics Becomes Substance -- The Current State of Philosophy -- 8 The Final Dissolution of All Matter-The Shift from German to American Physics -- The Electromagnetic Field is Quantised -- The Photon Drops Its Mask -- Fluctuations and More Permanent Emanations of Energy -- The Disappearance of Matter -- The New American Quantum World -- Particle Zoo Without Theory -- 9 Mathematics Becomes a Superpower-How Emmy Noether, John Von Neumann, and Alan Turing Changed the World -- The Unknown Universal Genius of the Twentieth Century -- A Celebrated Bon Vivant -- The Architect of the Red Button -- The Computer Sees the Light of day -- Alan Turing-The Birth of the Digital Age -- The Mathematicians' War -- Emmy Noether Finds a Compass for the Abstract World -- Cinderella at the Mathematical Institute -- 10 The Architecture of Life is Decoded-How the "Science Clowns" Watson and Crick Ended a Decades-Long Quest -- The Birth of a New Science -- Breakthrough in the Fly Lab -- The Unknown Compound in the Centrifuge -- The Molecule of Life. The Discovery of the Double Helix -- From DNA to Proteins -- 11 The Pyrrhic Victory of Big Science-How Science Was Domesticated by the Military and Industry -- Penicillin-The Miracle Drug of Modern Medicine -- Quantum Effects in Everyday Life -- A Strong Team: Quantum Theory, Logic, and Computer Science -- In the Grip of the Military and Industry -- 12 What is a Human Being?-Our Mind as a Scientifically Ascertainable Entity -- A Look into the Distant Past -- The Neanderthal in US -- An Organ Steps Out of the Shadows -- A New View of Feeling and Thinking -- Thinking About Thinking -- At the Limits of the Explainable -- Step by Step -- The Self-Model in the World Model -- Epilogue: The Fifth Virtue of Science -- References -- Index. |
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Jaeger Lars
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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