Ben Franklin stilled the waves : an informal history of pouring oil on water with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general / Charles Tanford.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tanford, Charles, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in science--History.

Discoveries in science.

Science--History.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Tanford reflects on the evolving status of science and scientists. He recounts innovations in experiments as he follows a classic experiment - the effect of oil on troubled waters - from Ben Franklin's drawing-room days to our institutionalized scientific establishments.

Contents:

Contents; One: Introduction; Two: Benjamin Franklin; Three: Friends and Influences; Four: The French Connection; Five: Pliny the Elder; Six: Eighteenth-Century Science; Seven: Franklin's Experiment: The Observation; Eight: How Small Is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make; Nine: One Hundred Years Later. Science Comes of Age; Ten: Lord Rayleigh; Eleven: Meticulous Miss Pockels; Twelve: Comrades in the Search. The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics; Thirteen: Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation); Fourteen: In Praise of Water

Fifteen: Irving Langmuir: Molecular AttitudesSixteen: Biology-Cells and Membranes; Seventeen: Ernest Overton-Gentle Genius; Eighteen: Gorter and Grendel: A Factor of Two; Nineteen: Epilogue-The Biological Frontier; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-00272-X

1-280-75280-7

0-19-151303-2

1-4294-6988-9

OCLC:

437109276