Instrumentation for a better tomorrow : proceedings of a symposium in honor of Arnold Beckman / Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Physics and Astronomy.

National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scientists--Biography.

Scientists.

Scientific apparatus and instruments.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (77 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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Contents:

""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""PART I""; ""A Daughter's Remembrances

Pat Beckman""; ""Finding the Sweet Spot of Opportunity

Arnold Thackray""; ""PART II""; ""A Lifetime of Experience in the Growth of Modern Instrumentation for Organic Chemistry

John D. Roberts""; ""Molecular and Systems Biology

Leroy Hood""; ""Compelling Science and Synchrotron X-ray Sources

Gabrielle G. Long""; ""Chemistry at the Nanoscale Frontier

Chad Mirkin""; ""Nanoscale Science and Engineering

Michael L. Roukes""

""Forensic Science and Technology

Robert E. Gaensslen""""Clinical Medicine

T. Vincent Shankey""; ""PART III""; ""The Evolving Relationship Between Instrumentation and Research

A Panel Discussion""; ""The Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786610567485

9780309180849

0309180848

9781280567483

1280567481

9780309657426

0309657423

OCLC:

923276977