The discoveries
An unprecedented explosion of creativity, insight, and breakthrough occurred in every field of science in the last century. These discoveries profoundly changed the way we understand the world and our place in it. Now physicist and novelist Lightman tells the stories of two dozen of the most seminal...
| Main Author: | Lightman, Alan P., 1948- |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Pantheon Books,
c2005.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- The quantum
- Hormones
- The particle nature of light
- Special relativity
- The nucleus of the atom
- The size of the cosmos
- The arrangement of atoms in solid matter
- The quantum atom
- The means of communication between nerves
- The uncertainty principle
- The chemical bond
- The expansion of the universe
- Antibiotics
- The means of production of energy in living organisms
- Nuclear fission
- The movability of genes
- The structure of DNA
- The structure of proteins
- Radio waves from the big bang
- A unified theory of forces
- Quarks : a tiniest essence of matter
- The creation of altered forms of life.