Nature not mocked : places, people and science / Peter Day.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Day, P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science.

Technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Imperial College Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1990's, 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

Contents:

Contents; Preface; PART 1 TEMPLES OF SCIENCE; Chapter 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

Chapter 2 Conversation Rooms Chapter 3 The Institut Laue-Langevin: A Crucible of European Sciences; PART 2 SOME PAST MASTERS; Chapter 4 Count Rumford's European Travels; Chapter 5 Humphry Davy's Quest for Research Funding; Chapter 6 Michael Faraday as a Materials Scientist

PART 3 SOME FOLKS YOU MEET Chapter 7 Christian Klixbull Jorgensen (1931 -2001); Inorganic Spectroscopist Extraordinaire; 'Whereof Man Cannot Speak' ; Klixbull Jorgensen and the Language of Science; Chapter 8 Olivier Kahn (1943-1999); A (too) Brief Life

Molecules and Magnets: The Legacy of Olivier Kahn Chapter 9 Fred Dainton: Scientist and Public Servant; PART 4 MOLECULES SOLIDS AND PROPERTIES; Chapter 10 Magnets from Molecules; The Pre-History; The Chemistry of Magnets; Magnets Without Metals

Chapter 11 Mixed-Valence Compounds Chapter 12 Superconductors Past Present and Future; Chapter 13 Room at the Bottom; Chapter 14 Molecular Information Processing: Will It Happen?; Chapter 15 Connecting Atoms with Words; Low-Dimensional Materials; Linking Molecules into Solids

Exotic Properties

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611867157

9781281867155

1281867152

9781860949166

1860949169

OCLC:

815742030