Candid Science Ii Conversations With Famous Biomedical Scientists

Author : Istvan Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783261390
Total Pages : 615 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candid Science Ii: Conversations With Famous Biomedical Scientists written by Istvan Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2002-03-15 with total page 615 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book contains 36 interviews, including 26 with Nobel laureates. It presents a cross-section of biomedical science, a field that has been dominant in science for the past half century. The in-depth conversations cover important research areas and discoveries, as well as the roads to these discoveries, including aspects of the scientists' work that never saw publication. They also bring out the humanness of the famous scientists — the reader learns about their backgrounds, aspirations, failings, and triumphs. The book is illustrated with snapshots of the conversations and photos provided by the interviewees. It is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists, by the same author./a

Author : István Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781860942884
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candid Science II written by István Hargittai and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This invaluable book contains 36 interviews, including 26 with Nobel laureates. It presents a cross-section of biomedical science, a field that has been dominant in science for the past half century. The in-depth conversations cover important research areas and discoveries, as well as the roads to these discoveries, including aspects of the scientists' work that never saw publication. They also bring out the humanness of the famous scientists - the reader learns about their backgrounds, aspirations, failings, and triumphs. The book is illustrated with snapshots of the conversations and photos provided by the interviewees. It is a follow-up to the critically acclaimed Candid Science: Conversations with Famous Chemists, by the same author.

Author : Istv n Hargittai
Publisher : Imperial College Press
ISBN 13 : 1860948855
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candid Science VI written by Istv n Hargittai and published by Imperial College Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid Science VI concludes the series by narrating the conversations with famous scientists from the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics. There are 31 Nobel laureates and 11 other luminaries among them. The scientists are in the field of biomedical sciences, chemistry and physics.

Author : Istvan Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783260467
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candid Science V: Conversations With Famous Scientists written by Istvan Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid Science V: Conversations with Famous Scientists contains 36 interviews with well-known scientists, including 19 Nobel laureates, Wolf Prize winners, and other luminaries. These in-depth conversations provide a glimpse into some of the greatest achievements in science during the past few decades, featuring stories of the discoveries, and showing the human drama behind them. The greatest scientists are brought into close human proximity as if readers were having a conversation with them. This volume departs from the previous ones in that it contains interviews with mathematicians in addition to physicists, chemists, and biomedical scientists. Another peculiarity of this volume is that it includes nine interviews from another project, the collection of the late Clarence Larson, former Commissioner of the Atomic Energy Commission and his wife, Jane (”Larson Tapes”).

Author : Hargittai István
Publisher :
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Author : Istvan Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1908977531
Total Pages : 897 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candid Science Vi: More Conversations With Famous Scientists written by Istvan Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2006-10-23 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Candid Science VI concludes the series by narrating the conversations with famous scientists from the biomedical sciences, chemistry, and physics. There are 31 Nobel laureates and 11 other luminaries among them. The scientists are in the field of biomedical sciences, chemistry and physics./a

Author : István Hargittai
Publisher : Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780198509127
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road to Stockholm written by István Hargittai and published by Chemical Heritage Foundation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prizes enjoy enormous prestige throughout the world. Every year, science is propelled into the limelight, and in October, when the prizes are announced, and December, when they are awarded at a ceremony in Stockholm, a chosen few scientists acquire celebrity status and their sciencereceives wide coverage in the news media. First awarded in 1901, the Nobel Prize remains the only science prize widely recognized by the general public.What sort of scientists become Nobel laureates? How are they chosen? Are there features common to them, and to their prize-winning research? These sorts of questions have long intrigued Istvan Hargittai and seeking answers, he began interviewing Nobel prize-winning scientists about their careers.Some 70 laureates, and a similar number of other distinguished scientists, have been interviewed, most of them during the late 1990s, and the result is this remarkable book. Written for a general readership, The Road to Stockholm illuminates the nature of scientific discovery, the Nobel Prizeselection process, the factors common to award-winning research, and the effects of the Nobel Prize on science itself. Here are stories of scientists who overcame adversity, eventually to win the Prize; insights into the importance of the laureate's mentor in earlier life, and into the significanceof the location where prize-winning research is carried out; and a variety of responses to the question: what first turned you to science? No less fascinating are the well-publicised examples of deserving (in many eyes) scientists who were not awarded the Nobel Prize, and Professor Hargittai devotesa chapter to them.Here, then, is an absorbing account of science, scientists, and a Prize created a hundred years ago to reward those who, in the words of Alfred Nobel's Will, 'during the previous year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.'

Author : István Hargittai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198769873
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Scientific written by István Hargittai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York city is a world center of science and the memorabilia presented introduce the reader to a culture of learning and of creating new knowledge, venues of great medicine, and a number of exceptional schools graduating world leaders in science.

Author : Istvan Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783261110
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Candid Science Iii: More Conversations With Famous Chemists written by Istvan Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-03-21 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this invaluable book, 36 famous chemists, including 18 Nobel laureates, tell the reader about their lives in science, the beginnings of their careers, their aspirations, and their hardships and triumphs. The reader will learn about their seminal discoveries, and the conversations in the book bring out the humanity of these great scientists. Highlighted in the stories are the discovery of new elements and compounds, the VSEPR model, computational chemistry, organic synthesis, natural products, polysaccharides, supramolecular chemistry, peptide synthesis, combinatorial chemistry, X-ray crystallography, the reaction mechanism and kinetics, electron transfer in small and large systems, non-equilibrium systems, oscillating reactions, atmospheric chemistry, chirality, and the history of chemistry.

Author : Istvan Hargittai
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814474991
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dna Doctor, The: Candid Conversations With James D Watson written by Istvan Hargittai and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007-07-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three in-depth conversations with the Nobel laureate co-discoverer of the double helix and the first director of the Human Genome Project cover a wide range of topics, including progress in science; the scientist's role in modern life; women in science; scientific ethics; terrorism; religion; multiculturalism; and how genetics may improve human lives. Reflections by further illustrious contributors to the scientific revolution and the author's commentaries provide a glimpse into the thinking of scientists who largely determine the progress of humankind in our time.