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Scientific genius and creativity : readings from Scientific American / with an introduction by Owen Gingerich.
LIBRA - Rare Q141 .S293 1987 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gingerich, Owen, author of introduction.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists--Biography.
- Scientists.
- Creative ability in science.
- Science.
- Creativity.
- Medical Subjects:
- Science.
- Creativity.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- 8 unnumbered pages, 110 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.H. Freeman and Company, [1987], 1982.
- Summary:
- Here is a rare glimpse into the lives of some of the greatest scientists of all time--fascinating portraits of ten pioneers who helped to make medicine, physics, geology, biology, and chemistry what they are today.
- Contents:
- Creative Process
- William Harvey
- Newton's discovery of gravity
- Robert Boyle
- Lavoisier
- Gauss
- Short life of Évariste Galois
- Joseph Henry
- Charles Darwin
- Alfred Wegener and the hypotheses of continental drift
- Robert Millikan
- Prematurity and uniqueness in scientific discovery.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-108) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- ISBN:
- 071671857X
- 9780716718574
- 0716718588
- 9780716718581
- OCLC:
- 15019114
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