Scientists
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-06-23 | Author:Miles Harvey

He was urged by the king, to whom he related the whole affair on returning to France, to put it down on paper, and this he carried out faithfully in ...
( Category: France March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-02-20 | Author:White, Michael [White, Michael]

Figure 11. Newton’s representation of the comet’s elliptical path. What role did alchemy play at this stage of Newton’s reasoning? He never stopped experimenting, but interspersed periods observing comets and ...
( Category: Scientists February 15,2015 )
mobi, epub | | 2010-03-16 | Author:Skloot, Rebecca [Skloot, Rebecca]

24 “Least They Can Do” The Lackses didn’t know anything about the HeLa contamination problem that led McKusick and Hsu to them until Michael Rogers, a young reporter for Rolling ...
( Category: Scientists February 13,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2014-02-09 | Author:Boyle, David [Boyle, David]

VI ‘There is something at work in my soul, which I do not understand.’ Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, 1819 Turing’s period with the National Physical Laboratory, and with Darwin, was deeply ...
( Category: Scientists February 6,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-10-07 | Author:Walter Isaacson [Isaacson, Walter]

Alan Kay (1940– ) at Xerox PARC in 1974. Kay’s 1972 sketch for a Dynabook. Lee Felsenstein (1945– ). The first issue, October 1972. By keeping children (of all ages) ...
( Category: Hacking February 2,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-31 | Author:Jane Goodall

And Now “Superweeds” Monsanto has also created GE crops (soy, corn, canola, alfalfa, and sugar beet) that are tolerant of its own brand of herbicide, Roundup, now the most widely ...
( Category: Primatology January 29,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Peter Nichols

Much of what FitzRoy “learned” from his dealings with Fuegians must be set against misunderstandings like this—and his reliance on translators who were frequently under coercion. Although they were his ...
( Category: Scientists January 29,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2011-03-13 | Author:Einstein, Albert [Einstein, Albert]

The Institute for Intellectual Co-operation DURING THIS YEAR THE leading politicians of Europe have for the first time drawn the logical conclusion from the truth that our portion of the ...
( Category: Essays January 23,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Frenkel, Edward [Frenkel, Edward]

*Vera Serganova, the fourth recipient of the Harvard Prize Fellowship, came in the spring. Chapter 14 Tying the Sheaves of Wisdom The spring semester brought more visitors to Harvard, one ...
( Category: Number Theory January 16,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:Bill Hayes

Dr. Ehrlich never actually got to view the drama within the blood. But what was to him the most likely scenario involving the most likely suspects can now be clearly ...
( Category: Hematology January 6,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Watson, James D. [Watson, James D.]

10. MANNERS APPROPRIATE FOR A NOBEL PRIZE INDIVIDUALS nominated for Nobel Prizes are not supposed to know their names have been put forward. The Swedish Academy, which judges candidates and ...
( Category: Molecular Biology January 6,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2009-12-28 | Author:Graham Farmelo [Graham Farmelo]

It really will change me very much when I go home; it will make me afraid to do anything for my own pleasure. I shall probably be afraid to think ...
( Category: Scientists December 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-25 | Author:Richard P. Feynman [Feynman, Richard P.]

6 THE VALUE OF SCIENCE Of all its many values, the greatest must be the freedom to doubt. In Hawaii, Feynman learns a lesson in humility while touring a Buddhist ...
( Category: Scientists December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-01-01 | Author:Kai Bird & Martin J. Sherwin [Bird, Kai & Sherwin, Martin J.]

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT “He Couldn’t Understand Why He Did It” He told me that his nerve just gave way at that moment. . . . He has this tendency when things ...
( Category: Scientists December 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-26 | Author:Thomas Levenson [Levenson, Thomas]

While talkative fools like Ball and Whitfield presented little difficulty to Newton, William Chaloner remained at large, a wholly different species of problem. He was vastly more ambitious than the ...
( Category: Great Britain December 29,2014 )