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ISBN: 9781847921727 - Curiosity Curiosity
Philip Ball

ISBN10: 1847921728  ISBN13: 9781847921727
Publisher: Vintage The Bodley Head Ltd
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 17 May 2012
There was a time when curiosity was condemned. Today curiosity is no longer reviled, but celebrated. Examining how our inquisitive impulse first became sanctioned, changing from a vice to a virtue, this book begins with the age when modern science... More

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ISBN: 9780230250321 - Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing Biology, Computing, and the History of Molecular Sequencing
Miguel Garcia-Sancho

ISBN10: 0230250327  ISBN13: 9780230250321
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 11 May 2012
Sequencing is often associated with the Human Genome Project and celebrated achievements concerning the DNA molecule. However, the history of this practice comprises not only academic biology, but also the world of computer-assisted information... More

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ISBN: 9781408809082 - Darwin's Ghosts Bestseller Darwin's Ghosts
Rebecca Stott

ISBN10: 1408809087  ISBN13: 9781408809082
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 May 2012
An electrifying account of the extraordinary untold history behind Darwin's theory of evolution Christmas, 1859. Just one month after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected... More

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ISBN: 9780226677606 - Inventing Chemistry Inventing Chemistry
John C Powers

ISBN10: 0226677605  ISBN13: 9780226677606
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 27 Apr 2012
Focuses on Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteenth century. This title reveals how Boerhaave restructured... More

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ISBN: 9780199692118 - The Neutron's Children The Neutron's Children
Sean Francois Johnston

ISBN10: 0199692114  ISBN13: 9780199692118
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 26 Apr 2012
This account tracks the Allied atomic energy experts who emerged from the Manhattan Project to explore optimistic but distinct paths in the USA, UK and Canada. Characterized successively as admired atomic scientists, mistrusted spies and heroic... More

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ISBN: 9781421403632 - Women Scientists in America Women Scientists in America
Margaret W Rossiter

ISBN10: 1421403633  ISBN13: 9781421403632
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 20 Apr 2012
A survey of the history of American women scientists. It focuses on their pioneering efforts and contributions from 1972 to the present. It deal with the struggles and successes of women scientists in the era of affirmative action. The third... More

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ISBN: 9781408814017 - Experiment Eleven Experiment Eleven
Peter Pringle

ISBN10: 1408814013  ISBN13: 9781408814017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 Apr 2012
A wonder drug, a disputed Nobel Prize, and a patent that shaped modern medicine In 1943, Albert Schatz, a young Rutgers College Ph.D. student, worked on a wartime project in microbiology professor Selman Waksman's lab, searching for an antibiotic... More

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ISBN: 9781421402338 - Women Scientists in America (Volume 3) Women Scientists in America (Volume 3)
Margaret W Rossiter

ISBN10: 1421402335  ISBN13: 9781421402338
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 10 Apr 2012
A survey of the history of American women scientists. It focuses on their pioneering efforts and contributions from 1972 to the present. It deals with the struggles and successes of women scientists in the era of affirmative action. More

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ISBN: 9780262016759 - Progressive Enlightenment Progressive Enlightenment
Leslie Tomory

ISBN10: 0262016753  ISBN13: 9780262016759
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd MIT Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 03 Apr 2012
In Progressive Enlightenment, Leslie Tomory examines the origins of the gaslight industry, from invention to consolidation as a large integrated urban network. Tomory argues that gas was the first integrated large-scale technological network... More

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ISBN: 9780814776452 - Breaking into the Lab Breaking into the Lab
Sue Vilhauer Rosser

ISBN10: 0814776450  ISBN13: 9780814776452
Publisher: New York University Press
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 02 Apr 2012
Seeks to answer the question of why elite institutions have so few women scientists and engineers tenured on their faculties Why are there so few women in science? In Breaking into the Lab, Sue Rosser uses the experiences of successful women... More