Ben Franklin stilled the waves : an informal history of pouring oil on water with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general /
Benjamin Franklin, the 18th-century American statesman and scientist, watched the calming effect of a drop of oil on the waves and ripples of a London pond, and began to investigate exactly what was happening to cause this strange phenomenon. Following Franklin's lead, a motley crowd of scienti...
| Основен автор: | Tanford, Charles, 1921-2009. |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
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Oxford [England] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
℗♭2004.
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Ben Franklin stilled the waves. |
Съдържание:
- Contents; One: Introduction; Two: Benjamin Franklin; Three: Friends and Influences; Four: The French Connection; Five: Pliny the Elder; Six: Eighteenth-Century Science; Seven: Franklin's Experiment: The Observation; Eight: How Small Is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make; Nine: One Hundred Years Later. Science Comes of Age; Ten: Lord Rayleigh; Eleven: Meticulous Miss Pockels; Twelve: Comrades in the Search. The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics; Thirteen: Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation); Fourteen: In Praise of Water.
- Fifteen: Irving Langmuir: Molecular AttitudesSixteen: Biology-Cells and Membranes; Seventeen: Ernest Overton-Gentle Genius; Eighteen: Gorter and Grendel: A Factor of Two; Nineteen: Epilogue-The Biological Frontier; Bibliography; Index.