Linus Pauling and the chemistry of life
Profiles the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who described the nature of chemical bonds, made important discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics, immunology, and evolution, and used his scientific fame to help advance political causes.
Main Author: | Hager, Thomas. |
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Format: | Books Print Book |
Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c1998.
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Oxford portraits in science
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Series: Oxford portraits in science
Albert Einstein and the frontiers of physics
Alexander Graham Bell: making connections
Charles Darwin and the evolution revolution
Isaac Newton and the scientific revolution
Marie Curie and the science of radioactivity
Charles Babbage and the engines of perfection
Francis Crick and James Watson and the building blocks of life
Linus Pauling and the chemistry of life
Enrico Fermi: and the revolutions in modern physics
Galileo Galilei: first physicist
Gregor Mendel and the roots of genetics
Johannes Kepler and the new astronomy
Margaret Mead: coming of age in America
Michael Faraday: physics and faith
Louis Pasteur: and the hidden world of microbes