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I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier

I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier

Essays on Science, Scientists and Humanity

9780198590279
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Science does not offer a quiet life. Imagination, creativity, ambition, and conflict are as vital and abundant in science as in artistic endeavours. In this delightful collection of essays, Nobel Laureate Max Perutz writes about the pursuit of scientific knowledge, which he sees as an enterprise providing not just a few facts but cause for reflection and revelation.This book contains detective stories, tales of conflict and battle, a womans love affair with crystals, a mans gruesome fascination with poison gas, perils both phantom and real, and entertaining glimpses of Perutzs own long and exceptional life. Perutz views science as a passionate enterprise and the pursuit of knowledge as a sortie into the unknown:: these essays explore a remarkable range of topics, both scientific and personal, with the lucidity and precision that he brought to his ownpioneering work in protein crystallography.
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OUP Oxford
85290
9780198590279
9780198590279

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Publication date
2002
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
372
Dimensions (mm)
130 x 196
Weight (g)
406
  • Part 1: PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS; Friend or foe of mankind; Splitting the atom; The man who patented the bomb; Why did the Germans not make the bomb?; Bomb designer turned dissident; Liberating France; Enemy alien; Part 2: HOW TO MAKE DISCOVERIES; High on science; Deconstructing Pasteur; The battle over vitamin C; A mystery of the tropics; The forgotten plague; What holds molecules together?; I wish Id made you angry earlier; Big fleas have little fleas; How the secret of life was discovered; Dangerous misprints; A deadly inheritance; Darwin was right; A passion for crystals; PART 3: RIGHTS AND WRONGS; By what right do we invoke human rights?; The right to choose; Swords into ploughshares: does nuclear energy endanger us?; PART 4: MORE ABOUT DISCOVERIES; The second secret of life; How W.L. Bragg invented X-ray analysis; Lifes energy cycle; The hormone that makes nerves grow; How nerves conduct electricity; My commonplace book; Notes and references; Subject index;
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