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Helmholtz : a life in science / David Cahan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cahan, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Helmholtz, Hermann von, 1821-1894.
- Helmholtz, Hermann von.
- Scientists--Germany--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Germany.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 937 pages ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- The making of a scientist
- The boy from Potsdam
- At the gymnasium: father and son
- Becoming a medical doctor
- Undiscovered
- Gaining scientific renown
- Scientific networking
- In the private and the public eye
- The new dispensation
- Unhappy intermezzo in Bonn
- The turning point
- The new angel
- The relations of science
- The relations of music
- Popularizing science in Britain and Germany
- Learning to see the world
- Almost a professor of physics
- The road to Berlin
- Scientific grandee
- In the capital of Geist
- The burdens of building physics
- Among the elite
- Kulturkampf in science, I
- Kulturkampf in science, II
- Anti-Helmholtz, again
- In the scientific capitals of Europe
- Institutional brilliance
- Celebrations
- Doyen
- Science, art, and standards business
- Charismatic leader
- Atlantic crossings
- Epilogue: Helmholtz in modern German memory.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226481142
- 022648114X
- OCLC:
- 1004267771
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