| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| Summary |
"The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because if is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the arts, archaelogy, architecture, drama and literature as to the pure and applied sciences. More famous scientists have lived and worked in the RI than in any other laboratory in the world. A roll-call includes Rumford, Davy, Faraday, Tyndall, Dewar, Rayleigh, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg and George Porter. Not is it only the home of continuous electricity, it is also the birthplace of many aspects of molecular biology and viruses and enzymology. Some fifteen scientists who have won the Nobel Prize have, at one time or another, worked or lectured at the RI. And eminent individuals, like Howard Carter and Coleridge, have lectured there"--Publisher's description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
Royal Institution of Great Britain -- History
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| SUBJECT |
Royal Institution of Great Britain fast |
| Subject |
Science -- Great Britain -- Societies, etc. -- History
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Science -- Societies, etc.
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192652843 |
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0192652842 |
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9780191924453 |
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0191924458 |
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