The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers by Lightman, Alan

The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers

In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer Alan Lightman chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of...
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers by Lightman, Alan

The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers

¥5,915

The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers

¥5,915
Author: Alan Lightman
Format: Paperback
Language: English
In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer Alan Lightman chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of twentieth-century science--everything from the theory of relativity to mapping the structure of DNA.These discoveries radically changed our notions of the world and our place in it. Here are Einstein, Fleming, Bohr, McClintock, Paul ing, Watson and Crick, Heisenberg and many others. With remarkable insight, Lightman charts the intellectual and emotional landscape of the time, portrays the human drama of discovery, and explains the significance and impact of the work. Finally he includes a fascinating and unique guided tour through the original papers in which the discoveries were revealed. Here is science writing at its best-beautiful, lyrical and completely accessible. It brings the process of discovery to life before our very eyes.

Author: Alan Lightman
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/14/2006
Pages: 592
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9780375713453

About the Author
Alan Lightman was born in Memphis, Tennessee, and educated at Princeton and at the California Institute of Technology, where he received a Ph.D. in theoretical physics. An active research scientist in astronomy and physics for two decades, he has also taught both subjects on the faculties of Harvard and MIT. Lightman's novels include Einstein's Dreams, which was an international best seller; Good Benito; The Diagnosis, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and Reunion. His essays have appeared in The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, Nature, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker, among other publications. He lives in Massachusetts, where he is adjunct professor of humanities at MIT.


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