CLCN
LanguageENG
PublishYear2005
publishCompany
Wiley
EISBN
9780470093030
PISBN
9780470093023
edition
1
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Adam Hart Davis has interviewed some of the most influential scientists and thinkers of our time. In this fascinating insight into modern science he presents the stories behind the science, the difficulties behind the discoveries and the future of the findings, as explained by the people themselves. Adam Hart Davis talks with:- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Bath, UK) tells her personal story of the discovery of the first pulsar in 1967 she thought the signals came from little green men in outer space and her boss was awarded a Nobel prize. Sir Michael Berry (Bristol, UK) talks about some of the complex quantum physics of caustics and fractals, and says that what he is trying to do now is tie knots in nothing.
Collected by
- UCLA
- Princeton University
- University of California,Davis
- University of Oxford
- Columbia University Library