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No Time to Lose: A Life in Pursuit of Deadly Viruses by Piot Peter
epub |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Piot, Peter [Piot, Peter]

AFTER A WHILE I found that I was thriving at GPA, somewhat to my surprise, and that I was feeling useful. People took my advice seriously, and the officials I ...
( Category: Epidemiology October 10,2015 )
The Physicists by C. P. Snow
epub |eng | 2012-05-11 | Author:C. P. Snow

8: Nuclear Fusion WHEN the news of Hiroshima was first broadcast, a select assembly of German nuclear scientists (Heisenberg and Hahn amongst them) were in gentlemanly captivity in a Cambridgeshire ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics October 10,2015 )
In Search of Sir Thomas Browne by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
epub |eng | | Author:Hugh Aldersey-Williams

electricity (PE, 1646): Browne’s lithe visual imagination yields him some uncanny insights into these mysterious new phenomena. Drawing an analogy with the circular motion observed when one blows on motes ...
( Category: Philosophers September 12,2015 )
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film "The Imitation Game by Andrew Hodges
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-11-10 | Author:Andrew Hodges

( Category: Scientists July 24,2015 )
Big Science by Michael Hiltzik
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Hiltzik [Hiltzik, Michael]

Chapter Fourteen * * * The Road to Trinity The course of the war had outrun work on the bomb, rendering the Allied scientists’ concerns about a Nazi bomb program ...
( Category: United States July 18,2015 )
The Philosophical Breakfast Club by Laura J. Snyder
epub |eng | 2011-02-21 | Author:Laura J. Snyder [Snyder, Laura J.]

AS BABBAGE WORKED on the new machine, he was well aware of the pieces of the Difference Engine gathering dust in his new fireproof storage room. His heart was no ...
( Category: Scientists July 18,2015 )
Making Marie Curie: Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information (science.culture) by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén
epub |eng | 2015-03-17 | Author:Eva Hemmungs Wirtén [Wirtén, Eva Hemmungs]

II As it turned out, there already was an organization dealing with many of the same topics that the CICI now gave itself the mission to address, and it was ...
( Category: Scientists July 17,2015 )
Genius At Play by Siobhan Roberts
epub |eng | 2015-07-14 | Author:Siobhan Roberts

Dateline: Cambridge, 1973. The typical scene featuring Conway loitering in the common room had changed somewhat. Now he could be found crawling around the floor, as if under a hypnotist’s ...
( Category: Scientists July 15,2015 )
Turing's Cathedral by George Dyson
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-03-05 | Author:George Dyson [Dyson, George]

Ulam spoke to Carson Mark and Norris Bradbury immediately, and Edward Teller the following day. Teller, who had been working on the problem for almost a decade, immediately improved upon ...
( Category: History June 14,2015 )
The Demon Under the Microscope by Thomas Hager
epub |eng | 2006-09-19 | Author:Thomas Hager [Hager, Thomas]

CHAPTER FOURTEEN AS SOON AS it appeared, the first paper by the Pasteur Institute team was translated into German and circulated within Bayer. According to one of the German chemists, ...
( Category: Microbiology June 13,2015 )
Lightning Man by Kenneth Silverman
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-06-11 | Author:Kenneth Silverman [Silverman, Kenneth]

For the first six months after his agreement with Kendall, Morse became little more than a bystander to the development of his invention. Kendall rapidly set to work forming or ...
( Category: Patents & Inventions June 12,2015 )
Edison and the Electric Chair by Mark Essig
epub |eng | 2009-10-04 | Author:Mark Essig

HAVING FAILED to ruffle him on technical questions, Cockran pressed Edison on the rumors of conspiracy. "Now, Mr. Edison, do you know Mr. Brown pretty well?" "Fairly well. I have ...
( Category: Electricity June 12,2015 )
IWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It by Steve Wozniak & Gina Smith
epub |eng | 2007-09-25 | Author:Steve Wozniak & Gina Smith [Wozniak, Steve & Smith, Gina]

( Category: Computers & Technology June 12,2015 )
Angels and Ages by Adam Gopnik
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-04-22 | Author:Adam Gopnik [Gopnik, Adam]

These are not just what professors would call rhetorical strategies, things that work. They are a circuit of feelings and implicit themes, of voice, that makes The Origin not just ...
( Category: Great Britain June 12,2015 )
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer (Great Discoveries) by David Leavitt
mobi, epub |eng | 2006-11-16 | Author:David Leavitt

The Enigma Machine, employed by the Germans to encrypt classified and sensitive messages during World War II. (HultonArchive/Getty Images) Inside each rotor a mass of wires connected the contact points ...
( Category: LGBT June 12,2015 )

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