TY  - BOOK
AU  - Day,P.
TI  - Nature not mocked: places, people and science 
SN  - 1860949169
AV  - Q181 .D363 2005eb
U1  - 500 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London
PB  - Imperial College Press
KW  - Science
KW  - Technology
KW  - Sciences
KW  - Technologie
KW  - sciences (philosophy)
KW  - aat
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Essays
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Nanoscience
KW  - Reference
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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