Prematurity in scientific discovery : on resistance and neglect / edited by Ernest B. Hook.

Contributor(s):

Hook, Ernest B, 1936- [editor.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9780520927735
0520927737
0585441162
9780585441160
9780520231061
0520231066
9780520231078
0520231074
1597348309
9781597348300
9786612356728
6612356723

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prematurity in scientific discovery.DDC classification:

509 21

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Q180.55.D57 P74 2002eb

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TB 4000

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Contents:

Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter One: A Background to Prematurity and Resistance to "Discovery"; Chapter Two: Prematurity in Scientific Discovery; Chapter Three: Prematurity, Nuclear Fission, and the Transuranium Actinide Elements; Chapter Four: Resistance to Change and New Ideas in Physics: A Personal Perspective; Chapter Five: The Timeliness of the Discoveries of the Three Modes of Gene Transfer in Bacteria; Chapter Six: Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science; Chapter Seven: Prematurity and Delay in the Prevention of Scurvy.

Summary: For centuries, observers have noted the many obstacles to intellectual change in science. In a much-discussed paper published in Scientific American in 1972, molecular biologist Gunther Stent proposed an explicit criterion for one kind of obstacle to scientific discovery.

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For centuries, observers have noted the many obstacles to intellectual change in science. In a much-discussed paper published in Scientific American in 1972, molecular biologist Gunther Stent proposed an explicit criterion for one kind of obstacle to scientific discovery.

English.

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