Fascination Of Science

Author : Herlinde Koelbl
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780262374606

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An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in this English translation of the German book Fascination of Science, an indelible collection of portraits of and interviews with sixty pioneering scientists of the twenty-first century. Koelbl’s approach is intimate and accessible, and her highly personal interviews with her subjects reveal the forces (as well as the personal quirks) that motivate the scientists’ work; for example, one wakes up at 3 am because her mind is calm then, another says his best ideas come to him in the shower. These glimpses into the scientists’ lives and thinking add untold texture in this up-to-the-minute survey of the activities and progress that are currently taking place in the broad field of the natural sciences. Koelbl’s interview subjects include Nobel Prize winners Dan Shechtman, Frances Arnold, Carolyn Bertozzi, and cover scientific fields from astronomy, biochemistry, and quantum physics to stem-cell research and AI. Beautifully bringing together art, science, and the written word, Fascination of Science is an inspiring read that shows how creativity, obsession, persistence, and passion drive the pioneering researchers of our time.

Author : Herlinde Koelbl
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780262545570

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An intimate collection of portraits of internationally renowned scientists and Nobel Prize winners, paired with interviews and personal stories. What makes a brilliant scientist? Who are the people behind the greatest discoveries of our time? Connecting art and science, photographer Herlinde Koelbl seeks the answers in this English translation of the German book Fascination of Science, an indelible collection of portraits of and interviews with sixty pioneering scientists of the twenty-first century. Koelbl’s approach is intimate and accessible, and her highly personal interviews with her subjects reveal the forces (as well as the personal quirks) that motivate the scientists’ work; for example, one wakes up at 3 am because her mind is calm then, another says his best ideas come to him in the shower. These glimpses into the scientists’ lives and thinking add untold texture in this up-to-the-minute survey of the activities and progress that are currently taking place in the broad field of the natural sciences. Koelbl’s interview subjects include Nobel Prize winners Dan Shechtman, Frances Arnold, Carolyn Bertozzi, and cover scientific fields from astronomy, biochemistry, and quantum physics to stem-cell research and AI. Beautifully bringing together art, science, and the written word, Fascination of Science is an inspiring read that shows how creativity, obsession, persistence, and passion drive the pioneering researchers of our time.

Author : Anatoly L. Buchachenko
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811525926

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The Beauty and Fascination of Science by Anatoly L. Buchachenko Pdf

In this book, Professor Anatoly Buchachenko gives a brief and informative description of the most striking achievements and discoveries made in the major natural sciences at the turn of the century – in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The author has a rare ability to describe scientific discoveries so that these achievements and their significance are understandable not only by professionals and scientists of all specialities, but for any reader interested in modern science, its role in the existence of mankind, and its impact on human society. Originally published in Russian, Professor Buchachenko’s book describes the interaction of natural sciences with social ones—philosophy and history—as well as the part played by the human factor in the development of science, especially the role of the great scientists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Scientists
ISBN : 0262374595

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Fascination with Science by Anonim Pdf

"A renowned German photographer combines portraits of and interviews with the world's leading scientists that look back at the personal experiences, successes and setbacks on their way to the very top"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Science
ISBN : MINN:319510004646865

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The Excitement and Fascination of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1123664152

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The Excitement and Fascination of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anatoliĭ Leonidovich Buchachenko
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Chemistry
ISBN : 9811525935

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The Beauty and Fascination of Science by Anatoliĭ Leonidovich Buchachenko Pdf

In this book, Professor Anatoly Buchachenko gives a brief and informative description of the most striking achievements and discoveries made in the major natural sciences at the turn of the century - in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The author has a rare ability to describe scientific discoveries so that these achievements and their significance are understandable not only by professionals and scientists of all specialities, but for any reader interested in modern science, its role in the existence of mankind, and its impact on human society. Originally published in Russian, Professor Buchachenko's book describes the interaction of natural sciences with social ones--philosophy and history--as well as the part played by the human factor in the development of science, especially the role of the great scientists. .

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:180505883

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The Excitement and Fascination of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christian Baron,Peter Nicolai Halvorsen,Christine Cornea
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319565774

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Science Fiction, Ethics and the Human Condition by Christian Baron,Peter Nicolai Halvorsen,Christine Cornea Pdf

This book explores what science fiction can tell us about the human condition in a technological world, with the ethical dilemmas and consequences that this entails. This book is the result of the joint efforts of scholars and scientists from various disciplines. This interdisciplinary approach sets an example for those who, like us, have been busy assessing the ways in which fictional attempts to fathom the possibilities of science and technology speak to central concerns about what it means to be human in a contemporary world of technology and which ethical dilemmas it brings along. One of the aims of this book is to demonstrate what can be achieved in approaching science fiction as a kind of imaginary laboratory for experimentation, where visions of human (or even post-human) life under various scientific, technological or natural conditions that differ from our own situation can be thought through and commented upon. Although a scholarly work, this book is also designed to be accessible to a general audience that has an interest in science fiction, as well as to a broader academic audience interested in ethical questions.

Author : Jacqueline D. Spears,Dean Zollman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : UVA:X000906873

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The Fascination of Physics by Jacqueline D. Spears,Dean Zollman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Science
ISBN : LCCN:65029005

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The Excitement and Fascination of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sibylle Baumbach,Lena Henningsen,Klaus Oschema
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319664385

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The Fascination with Unknown Time by Sibylle Baumbach,Lena Henningsen,Klaus Oschema Pdf

This volume explores 'unknown time' as a cultural phenomenon, approaching past futures, unknown presents, and future pasts through a broad range of different disciplines, media, and contexts. As a phenomenon that is both elusive and fundamentally inaccessible, time is a key object of fascination. Throughout the ages, different cultures have been deeply engaged in various attempts to fill or make time by developing strategies to familiarize unknown time and to materialize and control past, present, or future time. Arguing for the perennial interest in time, especially in the unknown and unattainable dimension of the future, the contributions explore premodern ideas about eschatology and secular future, historical configurations of the perception of time and acceleration in fin-de-siècle Germany and contemporary Lagos, the formation of ‘deep time’ and ‘timelessness’ in paleontology and ethnographic museums, and the representation of time—past, present, and future alike—in music, film, and science fiction.

Author : William C. Gibson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0824326016

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The Excitement of Science, Volume 2 by William C. Gibson Pdf

Author : Lynda Walsh
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780791481165

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Sins against Science by Lynda Walsh Pdf

Recounts the fake news stories, written from 1830 to 1880, about scientific and technological discoveries, and the effect these hoaxes had on readers and their trust in science. Lynda Walsh explores a provocative era in American history—the proliferation of fake news stories about scientific and technological discoveries from 1830 to 1880. These hoaxes, which fooled thousands of readers, offer a first-hand look at an intriguing guerilla tactic in the historical struggle between arts and sciences in America. Focusing on the hoaxes of Richard Adams Locke, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, and Dan De Quille, the author combines rhetorical hermeneutics, linguistic pragmatics, and reader-response theory to answer three primary questions: How did the hoaxes work? What were the hoaxers trying to accomplish? And—what is a hoax? “Its careful examination of contemporary reader reactions to the hoaxes provides concrete evidence for what people actually believed—thus attesting very specifically to the nineteenth-century ‘assumptions about the real world’ that were being ‘called into question’ by the hoaxes impressively wide range of historical and theoretical resources are brought to bear on these ‘acts of reading.’ All of this is woven into a rich and nuanced account of what we stand to gain—in terms of understanding the past—by taking seriously a handful of little known jests.” — The Edgar Allen Poe Review “I found the book to be quite informative, not only as a technical exploration concerned with how readers interact with texts that promulgate hoaxes, but also as a work providing helpful glimpses of the emerging roles of science and media in this period.” — Thomas M. Lessl, The University of Georgia “As Walsh points out, there is no extended analysis of hoaxes in the rhetoric of science, and her book shows how important hoaxes are in understanding the history of professionalized science as it emerged in the United States. The relationship of science and the the public is of utmost importance in science studies, and the author has identified a key source of historical information about this relationship.” — Ellen Barton, coeditor of Discourse Studies in Composition

Author : George H. Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:174898124

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