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Great Breakthroughs In 20th-Century Science, Including The Original Papers

by Alan Lightman
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Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, May of 2009 ‧
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In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer Alan Lightman chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of twentieth-century science--everything from the theory of relativity to mapping the structure of DNA.These discoveries radically changed our notions of the world and our place in it. Here are Einstein, Fleming, Bohr, McClintock, Paul ing, Watson and Crick, Heisenberg and many others. With remarkable insight, Lightman charts the intellectual and emotional landscape of the time, portrays the human drama of discovery, and explains the significance and impact of the work. Finally he includes a fascinating and unique guided tour through the original papers in which the discoveries were revealed. Here is science writing at its best-beautiful, lyrical and completely accessible. It brings the process of discovery to life before our very eyes.


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Great Breakthroughs In 20th-Century Science, Including The Original Papers

by Alan Lightman

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ISBN: 9780307483843
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release Date: May of 2009
Language: English
Format: eBook
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman nasceu em Memphis, no Tennessee, e estudou em Princeton e no California Institute of Technology, onde se doutorou em Física Teórica. Investigador nas áreas da Astronomia e da Física desde há duas décadas, ensinou ambas as cadeiras em Harvard e no Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Na ASA estão publicadas as suas obras O Sonho de Einstein, um bestseller mundial, traduzido para trinta línguas, Good Benito e Luz Antiga - Uma Introdução à Cosmologia. Os seus ensaios foram já publicados na The New York Review of Books, no The New Tork Times, na Nature, na The Atlanthic Monthly e na The New Yorker. Vive no Massachusetts e é professor auxiliar de Humanidades no MIT.

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