Frontiers in Science

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In the thirty-five exciting "research reports" that make up this volume, Linus Pauling, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Fred Hoyle, Sir Charles Darwin, and others in the vanguard of scientific research take the reader on a guided tour of their laboratories, observatories and field stations, explaining precisely what it is they are doing and how it affects both science and the broad aspects of life today.
Among the problems on the frontiers of scientific exploration with which they deal in this volume are radiation, the origins of life, the growth and reproduction of viruses, the structure of living matter and the life cycles of stars.
In three introductory essays—on the physical sciences, the biological sciences and science and society—George Beadle, Harrison Brown and Hunter Mead sketch the broad framework within which these current developments are taking place.
The thoughtful layman who is challenged but bewildered by current scientific developments, and the scientist who is striving... Tovább

Fülszöveg

In the thirty-five exciting "research reports" that make up this volume, Linus Pauling, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Fred Hoyle, Sir Charles Darwin, and others in the vanguard of scientific research take the reader on a guided tour of their laboratories, observatories and field stations, explaining precisely what it is they are doing and how it affects both science and the broad aspects of life today.
Among the problems on the frontiers of scientific exploration with which they deal in this volume are radiation, the origins of life, the growth and reproduction of viruses, the structure of living matter and the life cycles of stars.
In three introductory essays—on the physical sciences, the biological sciences and science and society—George Beadle, Harrison Brown and Hunter Mead sketch the broad framework within which these current developments are taking place.
The thoughtful layman who is challenged but bewildered by current scientific developments, and the scientist who is striving to keep abreast of research in neighbouring fields, will find in this volume both clarification and stimulation.
The contributors are George W. Beadle; Hugo Benioff; James Bonner; Henry Borsook; Ira S. Bowen; Harrison Brown; Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge; Robert B. Corey; Sir Charles Darwin; L. A. DuBridge; Richard P. Feynman; Lyman Fretwell; Arthur W. Galston; Norman H. Horowitz; Fred Hoyle; Edward Hutchings, Jr.; James M. Kendall; Hunter Mead; Elting E. Morison; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Linus Pauling; Frank Press; Harry Rubin; Frank Salisbury; Allan Sandage; R. W. Sperry; John S. Stamm; Alfred Stern; A. H. Sturtevant and Albert G. Wilson.
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