I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier

Essays on Science, Scientists and Humanity

PERUTZ (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

372 Seiten

2002
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-859027-9 (ISBN)

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This delightful collection of essays by Nobel Laureate Max Perutz explores a wide range of scientific and personal topics with great insight and lucidity. "This...is a wholly captivating book; it has warmth, with, and style, and not a dull sentence." Walter Grazer, Nature.

Science is no quiet life. Imagination, creativity, ambition, and conflict are as vital and abundant in science as in artistic endeavours. In this collection of essays, Nobel Laureate Max Perutz explores a remarkable range of scientific topics with the lucidity and precision that he brought to his pioneering work in protein chemistry.
His book includes detective stories, tales of conflict and battle, one woman's love affair with crystals, a man's gruesome fascination with poison gas, the phantom perils that have been conquered by silent heroes.
Perutz argues that science is a passionate exercise and that the pursuit of knowledge is a sortie into the unknown. The pages of this book are populated with some of the intellectual giants of twentieth century science - Pauling, Meitner, Medawar, Krebs, and Jacob, among others. In addition, Perutz's own life provides entertaining anecdotes, including his internment in the UK as an anemy alien, his involvement in a scheme to make ships of ice for refuelling aircraft in the North Atlantic during the War, and the sheer joy he took from his work.
'This....Is a wholly captivating book; it has warmth, wit, and style, and not a dull sentence. I urge you to read, enjoy, and learn.' Walter Gratzer, Nature

Max F. Perutz, FRS, was the Director of the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology from its foundation in 1962 until 1979. In addition to many other awards and honours, he received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972 for the first solution of the structure of proteins.

PART 1: PLOUGHSHARES INTO SWORDS ; PART 2: HOW TO MAKE DISCOVERIES ; PART 3: RIGHTS AND WRONGS ; PART 4: MORE ABOUT DISCOVERIES

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.6.2002
Zusatzinfo	14 figures, 18 halftones
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 196 mm
Gewicht	406 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
ISBN-10	0-19-859027-X / 019859027X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-859027-9 / 9780198590279
Zustand	Neuware