Donald W. Braben

Promoting the Planck Club (eBook, ePUB)

How Defiant Youth, Irreverent Researchers and Liberated Universities Can Foster Prosperity Indefinitely

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Promoting the Planck Club presents rich mini histories of selected scientists whose work led to radical and transformational discoveries, their background, the prevailing scientific environment, and the conditions that allowed for their success. The text provides a broad audience of students, scientists, engineers, economists, and policymakers with ways to ensure that we take all steps to protect the flow of unpredictable scientific discoveries that are necessary for sustained levels of growth as well as ways to ensure that all steps are taken to protect the flow of unpredictable scientific discoveries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Polity
• Seitenzahl: 238
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118546383
• Artikelnr.: 40515011

Autorenporträt

DONALD W. BRABEN, PHD, is an honorary professor atUniversity College London, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics,and Founder of Venture Research International Ltd. He spent some 16years in particle physics, followed by spells in the Cabinet Officeand Science Research Council headquarters before beginning his longassociation with Venture Research in 1980. Dr. Braben is the authorof Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization and PioneeringResearch: A Risk Worth Taking (both from Wiley).