| Description |
xiii, 207 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Robots ride high -- Clean water's ̀no-tech' solution -- Dancing with the flow -- Earth houses that don't shake down -- The science of swimming -- Geneticists -- Forensic consulting -- Swat the difference -- Thoroughbred geneticist -- Marine Biologists -- Sometimes cold, always beautiful -- Reef restoration -- Eight eyes, no brain -- Mathematicians -- Mathematical art -- The beer scheduler -- Statistics brought to life -- Medical Scientists -- A model scientist -- Skin for life -- A parasitologist and clergyman with ̀a passion for poo' -- At the viral frontline -- Flu busting cold case -- Neuroscientists -- The brain and the Bomb -- The brain collector -- Music to deaf ears -- Music and the mind -- Physicists -- The stunt physicist -- The man with X-ray vision -- Superconducting physicist -- A quantum of music -- Physics made fun -- A quantum leap for children's fiction -- Tennis anyone? -- Are nanoparticles safe? -- Science Communicators -- |
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Contents note continued: The surfing scientist -- Taking science to the media -- Fires, killer whales and megafauna -- Science-ology -- Zoologists -- Do kangaroos have friends? -- Refugee solves Australian problems -- The real Batman -- Animal intelligence -- The talking ape -- Life in the canopy -- Marsupial nutrition -- Kangaroos, frogs, crocodiles and rockets -- There's a moth in my chocolate -- Birdcatching on the fly |
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Machine generated contents note: Archaeologists and Palaeontologists -- Ancient fossils and future minds -- Young scientist in an old field -- Forensic archaeology: ̀you have to be a bit weird' -- The iceman cometh -- A Long history -- Astronomers and Space Scientists -- Space suits that fit -- Asteroid wrapped -- Engineering astronomy's future -- A cool entry -- A vision to Mars -- Behind the Moon landings -- Botanists and Agricultural Scientists -- Top of the tree -- A burning issue -- Science brings bread and peace -- Chemists -- Chemistry that's better than nature -- On the money -- Drug test leads to explosives -- Computer Scientists -- Stone circles to computer scams and clinical notes -- Computers get the joke -- A novel scientist -- Earth Scientists -- An explosion of science: I blast ̀em, you mine ̀em -- Touchdown on a cold planet -- Smoother sailing -- Geoscientist shapes the world -- Both sides now -- The weather forecast is cool -- Engineers -- Seeing hope -- |
| Summary |
Forensics, Fossils and Fruitbats is a fascinating collection of more than 70 profiles of Australian scientists from 15 fields of physical, biological and medical science. These scientists have been selected because their research is inspiring, intriguing or simply quirky, or because they have taken an unusual or interesting path to the work they do |
| Notes |
Also available via the World Wide Web |
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Also available via the World Wide Web |
| Subject |
Science -- Australia.
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Scientists -- Australia -- Biography.
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Science.
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Scientists -- Australia.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Author |
CSIRO Publishing.
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| LC no. |
2010670822 |
| ISBN |
9780643097452 (paperback) |
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