Promoting the Planck Club how defiant youth, irreverent researchers and liberated universities can foster prosperity indefinitely / by Donald W. Braben.

Author/creator Braben, D. W.
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Publication InfoHoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2014]
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Contents Accidents, coincidences and the luck of the draw : how Benjamin Thompson and Humphry Davy enabled Michael Faraday to electrify the world -- Science, technology and economic growth : can their magical relationships be controlled? -- Max Planck : a reluctant revolutionary with a hunger of the soul -- Physics golden age : "Bliss it was in that dawn to be alive/But to be young was very heaven" -- Oswald T Avery : a modest diminutive introverted scientific heavyweight -- Barbara Mcclintock (1902-1992) : a patient integrating maverick interpreter of living systems -- Charles Townes : a meticulously careful scientific adventurer -- Carl Woese : a staunch advocate for classical biology. Molecular biologists can read the notes in the score but they can't hear the music? -- Peter Mitchell : a high-minded creative and courageous bioenergetics accountant -- Harry Kroto : an artistic adventurous chemist with a flair for astrophysics -- John Mattick : a prominent critic of dogma and a pioneer of the idea that genomes contain hidden sources of regulation -- Conclusions: How we can foster prosperity indefinitely.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Issued in other formPrint version: Braben, D. W., author. Promoting the Planck Club Hoboken, New Jersey : John Wiley & Sons Inc., [2014] 9781118546420
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