I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and HumanityThis collection of essays from Nobel Laureate Max Perutz explores a wide range of scientific and personal topics with insight and lucidity. It includes lively anecdotes about key figures in 20th-century science. |
Contents
Friend or Foe of Mankind? | 1 |
Splitting the Atom | 15 |
The Man Who Patented the Bomb | 29 |
Why Did the Germans Not Make the Bomb? | 43 |
Bomb Designer Turned Dissident | 53 |
Liberating France | 63 |
Enemy Alien | 71 |
High on Science | 107 |
Dangerous Misprints | 189 |
A Deadly Inheritance | 195 |
Darwin Was Right | 199 |
A Passion for Crystals | 207 |
By What Right Do We Invoke Human Rights? | 213 |
The Right to Choose | 225 |
Does Nuclear Energy Endanger Us? | 235 |
The Second Secret of Life | 253 |
Deconstructing Pasteur | 117 |
The Battle Over Vitamin C | 129 |
A Mystery of the Tropics | 139 |
The Forgotten Plague | 147 |
What Holds Molecules Together? | 161 |
I Wish Id Made You Angry Earlier | 171 |
Big Fleas Have Little Fleas | 175 |
How the Secret of Life Was Discovered | 179 |
How WL Bragg Invented Xray Analysis | 277 |
Lifes Energy Cycle | 293 |
The Hormone that Makes Nerves Grow | 299 |
How Nerves Conduct Electricity | 303 |
My Commonplace Book | 307 |
Notes and References | 327 |
Subject Index | 341 |
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I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity Max F. Perutz No preview available - 2003 |
I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity Max F. Perutz No preview available - 1998 |
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Light is a Messenger: The Life and Science of William Lawrence Bragg Graeme K. Hunter No preview available - 2004 |
Cultures of Creativity: The Centennial Exhibition of the Nobel Prize Ulf Larsson Limited preview - 2001 |