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The Remarkable Life and Career of Ellen Swallow Richards by Swallow Pamela C
epub |eng | 2014-07-08 | Author:Swallow, Pamela C.

Robert’s recovery was slow. Thin and without energy, he would sit silently in front of a window and stare outside. This went on for months. Ellen suffered, too, from worry. ...
( Category: Scientists March 20,2020 )
Capturing the Light by Roger Watson
epub |eng | | Author:Roger Watson

Chapter Eighteen THE ACADÉMIE DES SCIENCES, AUGUST 1839 At a joint meeting of the Académie des Sciences and the Académie des Beaux-Arts held at the Institut de France on 19 ...
( Category: Equipment, Techniques & Reference March 20,2020 )
A Well-Ordered Thing by Gordin Michael D
epub |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Gordin, Michael D.

CHAPTER 8 Disintegration Fighting Revolutions with Faith My God! it is a melancholy thing For such a man, who would full fain preserve His soul in calmness, yet perforce must ...
( Category: Scientists March 20,2020 )
The Paradise of Bombs by Scott Russell Sanders
epub |eng | 1987-03-19 | Author:Scott Russell Sanders [Sanders, Scott Russell]

Rain and melted snow seek out every fault, scour passage through every fracture, open tunnels and sinkholes, underground rivers and sudden gurgling springs. The waters make it, and waters unmake ...
( Category: Essays March 20,2020 )
The Starlight Night by David H. Levy
epub |eng | | Author:David H. Levy

When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star’d at the Pacific… Most critics assume that Keats was recalling Herschel’s discovery ...
( Category: European March 18,2020 )
The Ultimate Engineer: The Remarkable Life of NASA's Visionary Leader George M. Low (Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight) by Richard Jurek
azw3 |eng | 2019-11-30 | Author:Richard Jurek [Jurek, Richard]

Low considered Apollo 8 the emotional highlight of the program.163 For many years afterward, he would often gift the Bill Anders Earthrise photo taken from lunar orbit as a memento ...
( Category: Russia March 17,2020 )
A Sense of Where You Are by John McPhee
epub |eng | 2019-01-29 | Author:John McPhee

How Bradley acquired these criteria and became a superstar is not what interests people in basketball. If they think about it at all, they wonder why he did it. “Where ...
( Category: Political March 17,2020 )
Madness and Memory by Stanley B. Prusiner
epub |eng | 2014-03-14 | Author:Stanley B. Prusiner

Slowly, opposition to the prion concept was collapsing. I was particularly happy to get a call from Joe Gibbs in the fall of 1988, asking me to have lunch with ...
( Category: Neurology March 15,2020 )
The Physics Book (Big Ideas) by DK
azw3 |eng | 2020-03-09 | Author:DK

The classic “double-slit” experiment, a modification of Thomas Young’s original, produces a pair of diffracting waves whose interference pattern generates light and dark stripes on a screen. “The experiments I ...
( Category: Scientists March 13,2020 )
Queen of Science by Mary Somerville
epub |eng | 2009-03-12 | Author:Mary Somerville [Dorothy McMillan]

On going to Rome I required a good many books for continuing my work on Physical Geography, and had got Transactions of the Geographical Society and other works sent from ...
( Category: Scientists March 13,2020 )
Two Sides of the Moon by Alexei Leonov
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Alexei Leonov [Leonov, Alexei]

CHAPTER 8 Did You See God? 1968–9 Lt. Col. David Scott Manned Spacecraft Center, Houston, Texas Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year in the space programs of both the United ...
( Category: Scientists March 13,2020 )
Virusphere by Frank Ryan
epub |eng | 2019-02-13 | Author:Frank Ryan [Frank Ryan]

14 A Taste for the Liver Viral hepatitis is one of the most serious contemporary plagues of humanity. The problem is a global one, involving a handful of different viruses. ...
( Category: Microbiology March 13,2020 )
From Hell Island to Hay Fever by Paul Watkins
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Watkins

Grave of Corporal Breavington, Kranji War Memorial, Singapore Selarang Barracks, September 1942 On 3 September the Japanese made further threats. If the prisoners did not sign, then all water would ...
( Category: Pathology March 12,2020 )
My Journey into AI by Dr. Kai-Fu Lee
epub |eng | 2018-03-11 | Author:Dr. Kai-Fu Lee [Cranberry Press]

My birthday present from employees of Microsoft Research China Ubiquitous White Boards Whenever we had visitors at Microsoft Research China, they said to us, “How come you have so many ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics March 12,2020 )
How the ThinkPad Changed the World—and Is Shaping the Future by Arimasa Naitoh
epub |eng | 2017-03-11 | Author:Arimasa Naitoh

( Category: Scientists March 12,2020 )

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