Books written by Frederic Lawrence Holmes

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  Dictionary of Scientific Biography

  Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

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  Hans Krebs: The formation of a scientific life, 1900-1933

  16-17); W.V. Farrar, “Donnan, Frederick George,” Dictionary of Scientific Biography, ed. C.C. Gillispie, (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1970–1980), 4: 165. 121. Quoted in Wittgenstein and Krebs, “Permeabilität der Meningen,” p.

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  Investigative Pathways: Patterns and Stages in the Careers of Experimental Scientists

  This fascinating book is an investigation of scientific creativity.

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  Investigative Pathways: Patterns and Stages in the Careers of Experimental Scientists

  Investigative Pathways: Patterns and Stages in the Careers of Experimental Scientists

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  Dictionary of Scientific Biography

  Provides information on the history of science through articles on the professional lives of scientists. All periods of science from classical antiquity to modern times are represented.

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  Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA: A History of "The Most Beautiful Experiment in Biology"

  This book vividly reconstructs the complex route that led to the Meselson-Stahl experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research--its unpredictability, excitement, intellectual challenge, and serendipitous windfalls, ...

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  Instruments and Experimentation in the History of Chemistry

  This volume moves chemical instruments and experiments into the foreground of historical concern, in line with the emphasis on practice that characterizes current work on other fields of science and engineering.

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  Antoine Lavoisier: the Next Crucial Year: Or, the Sources of His Quantitative Method in Chemistry

  In this book, Frederic Holmes suggests that Lavoisier gradually came to understand the nature and power of his quantitative method during the year 1773, when he began to carry out a research program on the fixation and release of airs.

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  Lavoisier and the Chemistry of Life: An Exploration of Scientific Creativity

  Drawing on Lavoisier's daily laboratory records, unpublished notes, and successive drafts of articles, Holmes explores the interaction between this creative scientist's theories and practice, the experimental problems he encountered and his ...

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  Eighteenth-century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise

  Eighteenth-century Chemistry as an Investigative Enterprise