Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
![Vertical Empire, A: The History of the UK Rocket and Space Programme, 1950-1971]( "Vertical Empire, A: The History of the UK Rocket and Space Programme, 1950-1971")
Vertical Empire, A: The History of the UK Rocket and Space Programme, 1950-197199,99 €![Symmetry as a Developmental Principle in Nature and Art]( "Symmetry as a Developmental Principle in Nature and Art")
Symmetry as a Developmental Principle in Nature and Art151,99 €![Science and Controversy]( "Science and Controversy")
Science and Controversy42,99 €![Silk]( "Silk")
Silk28,99 €![Nature and Science; v.4]( "Nature and Science; v.4")
Nature and Science; v.437,99 €![Nature and Science; v.5]( "Nature and Science; v.5")
Nature and Science; v.536,99 €![Scientific Progress]( "Scientific Progress")
Scientific Progress110,99 €
We often forget that the science underpinning our contemporary civilization is not a marmoreal edifice. On the contrary, at each moment in its development over past centuries, it grew and advanced through the efforts of individuals and the institutions they created. As Director of the Royal Institution and its Davy Faraday Research Laboratory throughout the 1990s, the author had a unique vantage point to observe how places and people condition the way science has been shaped in the past and continues to be today. The author's background as a practicing solid state chemist, with a lively concern for issues engaging public awareness of science, have led him to recognize and celebrate, not just the remarkable contributions and unusual lives of past scientific heroes like Rumford and Faraday, but also their present day successors. Over the years, this insight has resulted in a wide variety of articles and essays, spread through many publications; a selection of these is collected in this b