Category: Biographies Memoirs Of Scientists

In 1912 Lawrence Bragg defined the interplay of X-rays with crystals, and he and his father, William thereby pioneered X-ray spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. They then led the latter box the world over for 50 years, whilst such a lot components of technological know-how have been remodeled via the information they created: physics, chemistry, geology, fabrics technology, electronics, and such a lot lately biology and scientific technological know-how. This booklet charts how this humble pair (William English,
his son Australian) rose from obscurity to foreign prominence after which again to present, undeserved obscurity. consciousness can also be given to the an important roles of either father and son in the course of the dreadful years of the 1st international warfare, and to William's early and unshakeable trust within the twin wave and
particle natures of radiation and his eventual vindication.

Unlike prior reviews, the publication highlights the intimate interactions among father and son that made their venture attainable, emphasizes own, family members, and wider human relationships, and gives new insights into instructing and study in a British colonial setting.

The 30th quantity of Geographers: Biobibliographical reviews adds considerably to the corpus of scholarship on geography's a number of histories and biographies with 9 essays on figures from Britain, France, america and Spain. each one was once extraordinary in his or her personal scholarship and made designated contributions in particular fields -- as old, political or inhabitants geographers, and, in a single case, as a hydrologist-geomorphologist. the topics additionally shared a dedication to the academic advantages of geography and of geographical learn that used to be rooted in a imaginative and prescient of geography as socially illuminating and separately life-changing. this is additional wealthy testimony of the significance of geographers' lives to the lived event of geography in practice.

George Edwards' identify is synonymous with the Vickers Viscount, the world's first turboprop airliner; the arguable TSR2 undertaking and the mythical Anglo-French Concorde. throughout the moment international struggle, it was once Edwards who made the Dam Busters' bouncing bombs bounce.

An award-winning zoologist travels in Charles Darwin's footsteps, and looking for the that means of life.In essentially the most inhospitable locations on the earth, zoologist Lloyd Spencer Davis comes head to head with an enraged leopard seal. Towering ice cliffs, a ferocious creature of the deep, and the extraordinary Antarctic atmosphere all flip Davis's international view on its head. 'What the hell am I doing here?' this query units Davis on a quest for perception and that means in a global that also pitches theories of evolution opposed to trust in a author; the technology of common choice opposed to a religion that says our international used to be crafted via clever layout. With a self-deprecating grin packed together with his cabin luggage - even if his passport isn't really - Davis makes a decision to persist with the travels of the eminent nineteenth-century naturalist, Charles Darwin: the fellow who did extra to alter our figuring out of this planet than the other biologist. trying to find Darwin provides us a private and intimate perception into Darwin and what drove the guy. it's also an try and unravel that at first panicked - after which far-reaching - query, that first hit Davis at the gigantic ice. With a wealth of analysis and brilliant imagery - in addition to a disarming honesty -Lloyd Spencer Davis takes the reader on an unforgettable international tour.

On February 19, 1973, 5 centuries have elapsed because the delivery of Nicolaus Coperni­ cus - the best astronomer of the Renaissance interval - who rediscovered for us the heliocentric version of the sunlight procedure, and documented it by means of his life's paintings in this sort of demeanour as to make its inspiration an enduring estate of mankind. The lifetime of Copernicus, extending from 19 February 1473 to his loss of life on 24 may perhaps 1543, was once no longer too wealthy in adventures or biographical proof. Born in Toruti from a kinfolk of Polish burghers, he obtained his first collage education in Cracow among 1491-1494. From Cracow he proceeded to Italy to spend the years among 1496-1503 on the Universities of Bologna, Padua and Ferrara - with occasional visits to Rom- in education for an ecclesiastical profession. whilst Bishop Watzenrode - his purchaser and maternal uncle - may perhaps now not expand his go away, Copernicus back to Poland in 1503 to go into the carrier of the church institution, which quickly ended in a canonry on the Frombork (Frauenburg) Cathedral in Warmia. And there - within the northern mists now not faraway from the Baltic beaches - in a land so various in weather from the sunny Italy of his formative years - he used to be destined to spend the remainder of his life.

Volker Reinhardt legt mit diesem Buch die erste Biographie über Machiavelli seit Jahrzehnten vor. Er beschreibt dessen Kindheit und Jugend im Florenz der Renaissance, den Aufstieg zum Politiker und Diplomaten sowie sein Leben als Literat und von den Mächtigen verfolgter Provokateur. Das Ergebnis ist ein neues Bild von Machiavelli als einem Theoretiker der Macht, der in seinem eigenen Leben und Werk auf Macht und Täuschung verzichtete.
Machiavellis Lehre, wie guy Macht erlangt, ist bis heute eine kalte Dusche: ethical, Recht und faith soll der Fürst als Fassade einsetzen, um seine Gegner in falscher Sicherheit zu wiegen. Keinesfalls darf er selbst daran glauben. Viele haben sich voller Abscheu von Machiavelli abgewandt, aber es gibt auch eine Reihe von Bewunderern, die von Friedrich Nietzsche über Hannah Arendt bis zu heutigen Nutzanwendungen für den Alltag reicht. Wie lebt jemand, der die Techniken der Macht durchschaut, aber selbst keine Macht hat? Volker Reinhardt zeigt, dass sich hinter dem illusionslosen Zyniker Machiavelli ein Idealist verbirgt, der an die perfekte Republik und das gute Leben glaubt. Gerade dieser Machiavelli hat uns bis heute etwas zu sagen.

Linus Pauling (1901-1994) -- chemist, peace activist, diet C suggest, and the single individual in background to win unshared Nobel Prizes -- leaped the bounds of physics, chemistry, biology, politics, and drugs to earn a name as one in every of America's maximum scientists and humanitarians. In a balanced, appealing biography, technology author Hager skillfully leads the reader via Pauling's pioneering paintings in fields starting from quantum idea to crystallography to immunology. Drawing on rankings of interviews with Pauling, his relatives and his colleagues, and at the two-time Nobel Prize-winner's papers, Hager limns a fiercely aggressive, emotionally constricted guy, irreverent, audacious, occasionally self-righteous and bullying -- a extra advanced determine than his public personality of maverick idealist. Drawing on a trove of newly declassified executive files, Hager tells the whole tale of the FBI's harassment and intimidation of Pauling for his leftist politics. The booklet ends with an in depth evaluate of Pauling's arguable late-life learn on diet C.

"A thorough and punctiliously pleasing biography of a genius" -- The New Yorker

"Magisterial.... a fragile balancing act of empathy and significant research" -- The occasions Literary Supplement.

"Remarkable in either bringing to mild Pauling's character and comparing his medical work." -- Detroit loose Press (4-star review)

"Monumental and authoritative" -- Nature

"The definitive biography" -- The New Scientist

Esta biografía de María Curie, l. a. única prologada por sus nietos, nos muestra todas las facetas de su vida: los angeles científica, l. a. madre, los angeles esposa, l. a. amiga y los angeles ciudadana del mundo.

Esta biografía pretende dar a conocer a María Sklodowska, l. a. joven polaca que viajó a París para cumplir un sueño; a madame Curie, l. a. eminente científica que ha pasado a los angeles historia como referente de tenacidad y pasión por los angeles ciencia; y a María Sklodowska-Curie, los angeles personality anónima que siempre quiso ser y que solo conocieron quienes compartieron su vida.

Los últimos capítulos alumbran el devenir de su obra y de su familia, dedicando unas páginas a Irène Curie y su esposo Frédéric Joliot, que en 1935 recibieron el Premio Nobel de Química; a Ève Curie, periodista y autora de los angeles primera biografía de su madre; y a sus nietos, Hélène Langevin-Joliot y Pierre Joliot, también eminentes científicos, que han prologado este libro.

María Sklodowska-Curie escribió: "No podemos construir un mundo mejor sin mejorar los individuos".

Y así l. a. definió Albert Einstein: "Madame Curie es los angeles única personality a quien l. a. gloria no ha corrompido".

Estas páginas recorren los angeles vida y l. a. obra de los angeles famosa científica polaco-francesa María Sklodowska-Curie (1867-1934), descubridora del polonio y del radio y pionera en alcanzar muchas metas: doctora en Ciencias Físicas en los angeles Sorbona, profesora universitaria, doble Premio Nobel (Física, 1903 - Química, 1911), académica, doctora honoris causa por un sinfín de universidades..., y un largo etcétera de primeras veces que culminaron el 20 de abril de 1995, cuando sus restos mortales fueron solemnemente inhumados en el Panteón de Hombres Ilustres de Francia, convirtiéndose así en l. a. primera mujer y los angeles primera extranjera sepultada en el emblemático monumento francés.

Ambas autoras son especialistas en diversos personajes históricos, entre los que destacan María Sklodowska-Curie y Teresa de Jesús.

Desde 2011 son coordinadoras y comisarias del homenaje a María Sklodowska-Curie que itinera por España. En 2014, organizaron con el Consejo better de Investigaciones Científicas l. a. exposición María Sklodowska-Curie: una polaca en París que fue inaugurada en el Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (marzo-octubre 2014). En 2015 han sido asesoras históricas y coproductoras del documental de TVE sobre Teresa de Jesús con ocasión del V centenario de su nacimiento.

Han publicado Una Carmelita en Flandes (2006), traducida al francés (2014), El arca de las tres llaves, los angeles reforma Teresiana (2008), Ana de San Bartolomé (2009) y María Sklodowska-Curie: Una polaca en París (2011).

Entre otras distinciones, son damas de Santa Teresa del Cuerpo de Intendencia del Ejército Español (2006) y ostentan l. a. Medalla al Mérito de los angeles Cultura otorgada por el gobierno de los angeles República de Polonia (2013), y el grado de caballero de los angeles Orden de las Palmas Académicas, concedido por el gobierno de l. a. República Francesa (2016).

Energy recounts the lifetime of Dr. John J. McKetta Jr., a first-generation Ukrainian American coal miner who labored his means up from the mines to develop into the world's top-rated strength specialist, a college dean, an encyclopedia editor, and some of the most widely recognized and revered professors in his box. To honor his a hundredth birthday in 2015, millions of his former scholars raised greater than $25 million to have a good time his contributions to their lives and to chemical engineering on the collage of Texas at Austin, which rechristened his domestic division the toilet J. McKetta Jr. division of Chemical Engineering.

In this biography, granddaughter Elisabeth Sharp McKetta retraces Dr. McKetta's route to turning into the godfather of contemporary chemical engineering. She describes how he committed his existence to aiding scholars all through their careers, changing into mythical for phoning ratings of them on their birthdays each year, whereas additionally exhibiting americans find out how to produce and use strength successfully. John J. McKetta Jr.'s interesting tale has been the topic of hundreds and hundreds of articles and interviews, and now Energy is the 1st full-length e-book approximately his impressive life.

Biographies of 9 chemists who solved serious social difficulties and outfitted either the chemical and our smooth lifestyle. Their discoveries -- white outfits, reasonable cleaning soap and sugar, coloured washer-friendly textile, fresh water, fertilizer, robust aviation and car gasoline, secure refrigerants, man made textiles, insecticides, and lead-free gas and meals -- have been wildly well liked by shoppers. In time, even if, a few of their reforms produced problems equivalent to toxins. In every one case, the weight of opting for and fixing the matter fell to chemistry. The 9 chemists are Nicolas Leblanc, William Henry Perkin, Norbert Rillieux, Edward Frankland, Fritz Haber, Thomas Midgley Jr., Wallace Hume Carothers, Paul Hermann Mueller, and Clair C. "Pat" Patterson.

"A compelling read... many desirable stories... an bold booklet, and well-researched." -- Nature

"This booklet is a gem! infrequently have I visible chemistry so sincerely and eloquently defined, whereas nonetheless displaying all its shortcomings ... an exceptional and straightforward read." --- AAAS technological know-how Books and Films.

"Absorbing." -- invoice Bryson, a quick historical past of approximately Everything.

"On your subsequent journey to the bookstall skip the motion event thrillers and hunt down Prometheans within the Lab... I want that McGrayne's ebook have been two times its length." -- renowned Mechanics.com

"Masterly ... intriguing and soaking up. McGrayne severely examines the tangled and complex interrelationships among the public's insistence on growth and luxury and the necessity to defend the surroundings. McGrayne's thesis [is] that technological know-how commonly and chemistry specifically can resolve any difficulties that it has by chance created...Meticulously documented." -- The Chemical Educator

"Gripping... sparkling... balanced ... A pleasure to learn. an excellent book." -- Chemical Heritage.