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Author Saris, Frans W.

Title Darwin meets Einstein : on the meaning of science / Frans W. Saris
Published Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (172 pages)
Contents Darwin Meets Einstein; Contents; The temple of science; Diary of a physicist; Dear Zhong-lie; Alchemy; Worthwhile; Scientific nomads; Superheated Ice; Managing a discovery; Spy in the lab; B. Manfred Ullrich; Diary of a fusionist; Roger; Solar cells; Particle accelerators; The Silicon Age; The discoverer and the inventor; Jaap was right; Moore's law in Bilthoven; Teller in the Netherlands; The scientific life; Shopping; Fundamental research on matter; A vacuum is not nothing; Father of the atom; Who influenced Bohr?; Hooray for the electron; Decadence; Physics and faith
Summary A witty, hard-hitting exploration of the ultimate aims of science in a dramatic form
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Subject Science -- Philosophy.
Science -- Philosophy -- Drama
Science -- Philosophy
Genre/Form Drama
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010379699
ISBN 9789048508303
9048508304
9089640584
9789089640581
1282591789
9781282591783
9786612591785
6612591781