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Brilliant blunders from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe

"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthrough...

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Main Author: Livio, Mario, 1945-
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Subjects:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882
Einstein, Albert, > 1879-1955
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron > 1824-1907
Pauling, Linus, > 1901-1994
Hoyle, Fred, > 1915-2001
Errors, Scientific.
Summary: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description: 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.
ISBN: 9781439192368 (hardback)
1439192367 (hardback)
1439192383 (ebook)
9781439192382 (ebook)
Author Notes: Mario Livio was born in 1945 in Romania. When he was 5 years old, he immigrated with his grandparents to Israel. He received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a M.Sc. degree in theoretical particle physics at the Weizmann Institute, and a Ph.D. in theoretical astrophysics at Tel-Aviv University. He was a professor of physics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology from 1981 until 1991. He is a senior astrophysicist at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute.

He has published over 400 scientific papers. He has also written several books including The Accelerating Universe, The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved, Is God a Mathematician?, and Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe. The Golden Ratio received the International Pythagoras Prize and the Peano Prize.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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