Scientists
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:John Gribbin

Back to the future This new speculation stemmed from Schrödinger’s early fascination with thermodynamics and the way the world is governed by statistical laws. He noticed that his wave equation ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Ridley

Chapter Eight Triplets and Chapels IN AUGUST 1960 Crick received news that he, Wilkins, and Watson were to be jointly awarded the Lasker Prize by the American Public Health Association ...
( Category: Genetics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-09 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

INTEREST IN gravitational collapse was reawakened in the early 1960s with the discovery of quasars, very distant objects that are very compact and powerful optical and radio sources. Matter falling ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-01 | Author:Ben Mezrich [Mezrich, Ben]

The Accidental Billionaires CHAPTER 17 | MARCH 2004 What a long strange trip it's been ... It isn't difficult to imagine the details of that morning sometime in March of ...
( Category: Business March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Carlson, W. Bernard

FIGURE 13.3. Interior of the experimental station showing the components that provided power to the primary coil of the magnifying transmitter. In the front are the capacitors and behind them ...
( Category: Electricity March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-01-15 | Author:Sylvia Nasar [Nasar, Sylvia]

At first, it seemed like just another one of Nash’s cryptic, disorganized performances, more free association than exposition. But halfway through, something happened. Donald Newman recalled in 1996: One word ...
( Category: Game Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2003-04-30 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow [MLODINOW, LEONARD]

XII SPRING WAS NEAR. It’s a nice season in Pasadena—warm weather, but not yet hot, and less rain than winter. A time to enjoy the blue sky, palm trees, and ...
( Category: Thermodynamics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2006-10-31 | Author:Steve Wozniak & Gina Smith [Wozniak, Steve & Smith, Gina]

Chapter 10 The Apple I I was never the kind of person who had the courage to raise his hand during the Homebrew main meeting and say, “Hey, look at ...
( Category: Business March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-01-02 | Author:James R. Hansen [Hansen, James R.]

On the one hand to dwell in the very center of technological reality…yet to inhabit—if only in one’s dreams—that other world where death, metaphysics and the unanswerable questions of eternity ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-07-26 | Author:Al Worden [Worden, Al]

CHAPTER 8 LAUNCH You never forget launch day. Finally, your mission is about to begin. You are in a special zone, like an athlete walking out for an Olympic event. ...
( Category: Astronautics & Space Flight March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-02-17 | Author:Randal Keynes [Keynes, Randal]

CHAPTER TEN LOSS AND REMEMBERING Funeral—Consolation—Charles and Emma’s thinking— Emma’s keepsakes—Charles’s memorial of Annie THE NEXT DAY EMMA BORE her grief in her own way. Her sister Elizabeth had come ...
( Category: Scientists March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-04-14 | Author:James Burke

In 1763 the end of the Seven Years War meant that the government was no longer in urgent need of capital, so the rate of interest on borrowed money fell ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-11-12 | Author:Dava Sobel

ANNA enters. ANNA. His clothes are dry. RHETICUS. (to COPERNICUS) Let me help you. ANNA. Everything’s ready. It’s time now. COPERNICUS. Thank you, Anna. You can just leave those here. ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-10-13 | Author:Alan Grafen & Mark Ridley

ANTIPHONAL VOICES Richard Dawkins and the problem of progress Michael Ruse Directionalist common sense surely wins on the very long time scale: once there was only blue-green slime and now ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1988-01-02 | Author:Timothy Ferris

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram for any given population of stars—a star cluster, say—therefore provides evidence of its age. When the cluster is in its infancy, virtually all its stars lie on ...
( Category: Japanese March 25,2014 )