Promoting the planck club = how defi...
Braben, Donald W., (1935-)

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  • Promoting the planck club = how defiant youth, irreverent researchers and liberated universities can foster prosperity indefinitely /
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    Title/Author: Promoting the planck club/ Donald W. Braben.
    Reminder of title: how defiant youth, irreverent researchers and liberated universities can foster prosperity indefinitely /
    Author: Braben, Donald W.,
    Published: Hoboken, New Jersey :Wiley, : 2014.,
    Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 222 p.)
    [NT 15003449]: 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.
    Subject: Scientists - Fiction. -
    Online resource: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118546352
    ISBN: 9781118546352 (electronic bk.)
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