Is science necessary? : essays on science and scientists
Bibliographic Information
Is science necessary? : essays on science and scientists
Max Perutz
(Oxford paperbacks)
Oxford University Press, 1991
Available at / 4 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 260-270) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book demolishes the caricature of the scientist as a "soulless hermit toiling away at abstruse problems he cannot explain except in incomprehensible gibberish". Nobel Prize-winning chemist Max Perutz demonstrates the need for an intelligent application and understanding of science in this collection of essays that ranges from science's role in food production, health, and energy to pen portraits of Fleming, Rutherford, Plank, and Weizmann. The book should be of interest to undergraduates across all science subjects and people interested in the philosophy of science.
Table of Contents
- Is science necessary?
- Science in war: Enemy alien
- Atom spy
- Great scientists: Discoverers of penicillin
- Discoverer of the atomic nucleus
- Discoverer of the quantum
- Discoverers of the double helix
- Chemist into statesman
- About science: How to become a scientist
- Brave new world
- Nature's tinkering
- Darwin, Popper, and evolution
- Department of defense
- More about immunity
- Physics and the riddle of life.
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