Nature not mocked : places, people and science /
Day, P. 1938-
Nature not mocked : places, people and science / Peter Day. - London : Imperial College Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Temples of science. ch. 1. The Royal Institution: then and now. The beginnings. Creating and communicating science. The philosopher's tree: how Faraday created today's Royal Institution. A special friday night. Christmas lectures in Japan. ch. 2. Conversation rooms. ch. 3. The Institut Laue-Langevin: a crucidble of European sciences -- pt. 2. Some past masters. ch. 4. Count Rumford's European travels. ch. 5. Humphry Davy's quest for research funding. ch. 6. Michael Faraday as a materials scientist -- pt. 3. Some folks you meet. ch. 7. Christian Klixbull Jørgensen (1931 -2001). Inorganic spectroscopist extraordinaire. 'Whereof Man cannot speak'. Klixbull Jørgensen and the language of science. ch. 8. Olivier Kahn (1943-1999). A (too) brief life. Molecules and magnets: the legacy of Olivier Kahn. ch. 9. Fred Dainton: scientist and public servant -- pt. 4. Molecules, solids and properties. ch. 10. Magnets from molecules. The pre-history. The chemistry of magnets. Magnets without metals. ch. 11. Mixed-valence compounds. ch. 12. Superconductors past, present, and future. ch. 13. Room at the bottom. ch. 14. Molecular information processing: will it happen? ch. 15. Connecting atoms with words. Low-dimensional materials. Linking molecules into solids. Exotic properties. Magnetics for chemists. A magnetic history -- pt. 5. Epilogue. Learning the rules of the game -- pt. 6. Bibliography.
We often forget that the science underpinning our contemporary civilization is not a marmoreal edifice. On the contrary, at each moment in its development over past centuries, it grew and advanced through the efforts of individuals and the institutions they created. As Director of the Royal Institution and its Davy Faraday Research Laboratory throughout the 1990s, the author had a unique vantage point to observe how places and people condition the way science has been shaped in the past and continues to be today. The author's background as a practicing solid state chemist, with a lively conce.
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Nature not mocked : places, people and science / Peter Day. - London : Imperial College Press, ©2005. - 1 online resource (x, 262 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references and index.
pt. 1. Temples of science. ch. 1. The Royal Institution: then and now. The beginnings. Creating and communicating science. The philosopher's tree: how Faraday created today's Royal Institution. A special friday night. Christmas lectures in Japan. ch. 2. Conversation rooms. ch. 3. The Institut Laue-Langevin: a crucidble of European sciences -- pt. 2. Some past masters. ch. 4. Count Rumford's European travels. ch. 5. Humphry Davy's quest for research funding. ch. 6. Michael Faraday as a materials scientist -- pt. 3. Some folks you meet. ch. 7. Christian Klixbull Jørgensen (1931 -2001). Inorganic spectroscopist extraordinaire. 'Whereof Man cannot speak'. Klixbull Jørgensen and the language of science. ch. 8. Olivier Kahn (1943-1999). A (too) brief life. Molecules and magnets: the legacy of Olivier Kahn. ch. 9. Fred Dainton: scientist and public servant -- pt. 4. Molecules, solids and properties. ch. 10. Magnets from molecules. The pre-history. The chemistry of magnets. Magnets without metals. ch. 11. Mixed-valence compounds. ch. 12. Superconductors past, present, and future. ch. 13. Room at the bottom. ch. 14. Molecular information processing: will it happen? ch. 15. Connecting atoms with words. Low-dimensional materials. Linking molecules into solids. Exotic properties. Magnetics for chemists. A magnetic history -- pt. 5. Epilogue. Learning the rules of the game -- pt. 6. Bibliography.
We often forget that the science underpinning our contemporary civilization is not a marmoreal edifice. On the contrary, at each moment in its development over past centuries, it grew and advanced through the efforts of individuals and the institutions they created. As Director of the Royal Institution and its Davy Faraday Research Laboratory throughout the 1990s, the author had a unique vantage point to observe how places and people condition the way science has been shaped in the past and continues to be today. The author's background as a practicing solid state chemist, with a lively conce.
1860949169 (electronic bk.) 9781860949166 (electronic bk.)
Science.
Technology.
Sciences.
Technologie.
sciences (philosophy)
SCIENCE--Essays.
SCIENCE--Nanoscience.
SCIENCE--Reference.
Science.
Technology.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Q181 / .D363 2005eb
500