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100 1 $aGratzer, W. B.$q(Walter Bruno),$d1932-
245 10 $aEurekas and euphorias :$bthe Oxford book of scientific anecdotes /$cWalter Gratzer.
246 3 $aOxford book of scientific anecdotes
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2002.
300 $ax, 301 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 00 $tThe great stench --$tCulture clash --$tThe reveries of Kekule --$tRontgen's rays --$tLight on sweetness: the discovery of aspartame --$tOtto Stern's sulphurous cigars --$tMetchnikoff restored to life --$tAn ill wind --$tMarie Curie and the Immortals --$t'Every integer his personal friend': Hardy visits Ramanujan --$tDavid Hilbert's eulogy --$tRabi meets his match --$tThe Bucklands explode a miracle --$tFarmyard thermodynamics --$tNewton ponders --$tRutherford finds a solution --$tThe vanishing blackboard --$tCats and dogmas --$tBut what use is it? --$tUnlocking the chains --$tOf life and death --$tMathematical peril --$tFortune favours the ham fist --$tTo discern a true vocation --$tThe Pauli principle --$tThe first eureka --$tLordly disdain --$tA martyr to science --$tThe marble and the mop --$tPythagoras's theme --$tNew ways with barometers --$tThe professor remembers --$tDalton's daltonism --$tThe trick of the tick --$tComfort in adversity --$tWinter in Paris: Becquerel and the discovery of radioactivity --$tThe unbreakable cypher --$tTwo hundred monks aleaping and the devil in the bottle --$tThe success of the operation and the death of the patient --$tPendant professor --$tFeud --$tThe man of few words --$tMauled by the Bulldog --$tDamping the canine rotor --$tNemesis in Nancy --$tMathematician's melodrama --$tBen Franklin stills the waves --$tFraternal fire --$tThe wages of sin --$tLoving an enzyme --$tThe poltergeist next door --$tThe problem solver --$tThe Resonance Bridge --$tA laboratory libation --$tSlot machine yields jackpot --$tShooting down Venus.
520 1 $a"The march of science has never proceeded smoothly. It has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, and by outrageous strokes of luck, deserved and undeserved, and sometimes by human tragedy. It has seen deep intellectual friendships, as well as ferocious animosities, and once in a while acts of theft and malice, deceit, and even a hoax or two. Scientists come in all shapes - the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. From the death of Archimedes at the hands of an irritated Roman soldier to the concoction of a superconducting witches' brew at the very close of the twentieth century, the stories in Eurekas and Euphorias pour out, told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer." "Open this book at random and you may chance on the clumsy chemist who breaks a thermometer in a reaction vat and finds mercury to be the catalyst that starts the modern dyestuff industry; or a famous physicist dissolving his gold Nobel Prize medal in acid to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Nazis, recovering it when the war ends; mathematicians and physicists diverting themselves in prison cells, and even in a madhouse, by creating startling advances in their subject. We witness the careers, sometimes tragic, sometimes carefree, of the great women mathematicians, from Hypatia of Syracuse to Sophie Germain in France and Sonia Kovalevskaya in Russia and Sweden, and then Marie Curie's relentless battle with the French Academy. Here, then, a glorious parade unfolds to delight the reader, with stories to astonish, to instruct, and most especially, to entertain."--Jacket.
650 0 $aScience$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aDiscoveries in science$vAnecdotes.
650 0 $aScientists$vAnecdotes.
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650 22 $aMedicine.
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650 4 $aCiencia$vAne cdotas.
650 4 $aDescubrimientos en la ciencia$vAne cdotas.
650 4 $aCienti ficos$vAne cdotas.
655 2 $aAnecdotes.
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856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002727066-t.html
856 42 $3Book review (E-STREAMS)$uhttp://www.e-streams.com/es0611/es0611_2883.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0725/2002727066-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0614/2002727066-d.html
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