Darwin meets Einstein : on the meaning of science / / Frans W. Saris
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| Autore: |
Saris Frans W
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| Titolo: |
Darwin meets Einstein : on the meaning of science / / Frans W. Saris
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| Pubblicazione: | Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2009 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (175 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 500 |
| 501 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Science - Philosophy |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Darwin Meets Einstein; Contents; The temple of science; Diary of a physicist; Dear Zhong-lie; Alchemy; Worthwhile; Scientific nomads; Superheated Ice; Managing a discovery; Spy in the lab; B. Manfred Ullrich; Diary of a fusionist; Roger; Solar cells; Particle accelerators; The Silicon Age; The discoverer and the inventor; Jaap was right; Moore's law in Bilthoven; Teller in the Netherlands; The scientific life; Shopping; Fundamental research on matter; A vacuum is not nothing; Father of the atom; Who influenced Bohr?; Hooray for the electron; Decadence; Physics and faith |
| Theories of everythingA mind's eye; The mother of all knowledge; A matter of civilization; Why science?; Spinoza's God; Science through the looking glass ofliterature; Sir Charles; Darwin meets Einstein | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A witty, hard-hitting exploration of the ultimate aims of science in a dramatic form |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Darwin meets Einstein |
| ISBN: | 1-003-69368-7 |
| 1-04-079904-3 | |
| 1-282-59178-9 | |
| 9786612591785 | |
| 90-485-0830-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910958879003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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