Remarkable discoveries!

by Ashall, Frank

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Title Statements

Full title :Remarkable discoveries! / Frank Ashall.

Summary

"Remarkable Discoveries! shows how scientists have made great discoveries that have pushed back the frontiers of knowledge and have changed the way we look at the world." "Frank Ashall, scientist and writer, takes us on a magical mystery tour of eighteen major scientific discoveries. Electricity, X-rays, DNA fingerprinting and the Big Bang are but a few of the achievements on which the author writes." "We delve into the world of the researcher and experience the excitement as each discovery is unfolded. Can we thank chance or just intelligence and hard work for the scientists' success? We learn that most discoveries are in fact made by accident, or from the curiosity of scientists who are interested in learning more about Nature's laws."--Jacket.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:1994.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge [England]
Language:eng
Publication Date:1994.

The Physical Object

Description:xi, 278 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521433177, 9780521433174
oclc:ocm29518588
LC Classification:Q180.55.D57
Dewey Decimal:509

The father of electricity -- One giant leap for mankind -- Medicine's marvellous rays -- Things that glow in the dark -- Parcels of light -- Dr. Einstein's fountain pen -- The Big Bang, or how it all began -- Molecular soccerballs -- Jostling plates, volcanoes and earthquakes -- Soda water, phlogiston and Lavoisier's oxygen -- Of beer, vinegar, milk, silk and germs -- Of milkmaids, chickens and mad dogs -- Malaria's cunning seeds -- Penicillin from pure pursuits -- DNA, the alphabet of life -- Cutting DNA with molecular scissors -- DNA the molecular detective -- Magic bullets.