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Benjamin Franklin was the first to report the phenomenon of oil's power to still troubled waters and to speculate on why it happened. A century later Lord Rayleigh performed an identical experiment. Irving Langmuir did it with minor variations in 1917, and won a Nobel Prize for it. Then Langmuir's work was followed by a Dutch pediatrician's in 1925. p Each experimenter saw a little more in the result than his predecessor had seen, and the sciences of physics, chemistry and biology have all been illuminated by the work. p Charles Tanford reflects on the evolving nature of science and of individual scientists. Recounting innovations in each trial, he follows the classic experiment from Franklin's drawing room to our present-day institutionalized scientific establishments and speculates on the ensuing changes in our approach to scientific inquiry.
| Autorius: | Charles Tanford |
| Leidėjas: | OUP Oxford |
| Išleidimo metai: | 2004 |
| Knygos puslapių skaičius: | 288 |
| ISBN-10: | 0192804944 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780192804945 |
| Formatas: | 198 x 129 x 16 mm. Knyga minkštu viršeliu |
| Kalba: | Anglų |
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