The Discoveries
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science
By Alan LightmanIn Copenhagen, Watson became obsessed with understanding the structure of DNA. In the fall of 1951, at age twenty-three, he went to Cambridge to learn about X-ray diffraction from Max Perutz, who was then using that technique to study ...
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers
By Alan LightmanBerg also fondly remembers an inspiring high school teacher, Miss Sophie Wolfe, who supervised the stocking of the science laboratories at his school. Wolfe also organized an after-school science program where ambitious students could ...
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers
By Alan LightmanFinally 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.
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th Century Science
By Alan P. LightmanAn unprecedented explosion of creativity, insight, and breakthrough occurred in every field of science in the last century. From the theory of relativity to the first quantum model of the...
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The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science
By Alan LightmanAlan Lightman tells the stories of two dozen breakthroughs made by such brilliant scientists as Einstein, Bohr, McClintock and Pauling, among others, drawing on his unique background as a scientist and novelist to reveal the process of ...