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RECORD NUMBER: 43 OF 69Main Title | Science & the written word : science, technology, and society / | |||||||||||
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Author | Massa, Lou. | |||||||||||
Publisher | Oxford University Press, | |||||||||||
Year Published | 2011 | |||||||||||
OCLC Number | 663773346 | |||||||||||
ISBN | 9780199734320 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0199734321 (pbk. : alk. paper) | |||||||||||
Subjects | Scientists--Interviews ; Science--Philosophy ; Science--Social aspects ; Science--history ; Technology--trends | |||||||||||
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Collation | xvi, 174 p. ; 21 cm. | |||||||||||
Notes | "The essays in this book arose from a series of interviews conducted over CUNY TV at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, on Fifth Avenue in mid-town Manhattan. The TV program was called " Science & the Written Word " and was broadcast by CUNY TV, throughout the five boroughs of New York"--Pref. Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index. |
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Contents Notes | Genes, girls, and Gamow / James Watson -- "Ben Franklin's scientific amusements" / Dudley Herschbach -- The same and not the same / Roald Hoffmann -- The God particle / Leon Lederman -- "The purine path to chemotherapy" / Gertrude B. Elion -- The discovery of radioimmunoassay / Rosalyn Yalow -- Rosalyn Yalow Nobel laureate: her life and work in medicine / Eugene Straus -- In search of divine reality: science as a source for inspiration / Lothar Schèafer -- Atomic fragments: a daughter's questions / Mary Palevsky -- The man who loved only numbers: the story of Paul Erdos and the search for mathematical truth / Paul Hoffman -- Lise Meitner: a life in physics / Ruth Lewin Sime -- Crystal fire: the birth of the information age / Michael Riordan. |