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  • Henry Enfield Roscoe

    The Campaigning Chemist

    by Peter J.T. Morris, Peter Reed ...
    Little known today, Henry Enfield Roscoe was one of the most prominent chemists and educational reformers in Victorian Britain. Having studied in Heidelberg, he worked to transform English education by using Germany as a model. He made Owens College, Manchester, viable and converted it into Victoria University (now the University of Manchester). He then campaigned for the reform of technical ... Read more

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  • Determinants in the Evolution of the European Chemical Industry, 1900–1939

    New Technologies, Political Frameworks, Markets and Companies

    Edited by Harm G. Schröter, Ernst Homburg, Peter J.T. Morris, Anthony S. Travis ...
    Series Book 16 - Chemists and Chemistry
    The editors wish to thank the European Science Foundation for its support of the programme on the Evolution of Chemistry in Europe, 1789-1939, as well as for sponsoring the publication of this volume. Through the subdivision of this initiative that deals specifically with chemical industry it has been possible for historians of science, technology, business and economics to share often widely ... Read more

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  • Rosalind Franklin

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    by Brenda Maddox ...
    "A meticulous biography . . . [Rosalind Franklin] was the unacknowledged heroine of DNA, the Sylvia Plath of molecular biology." — The EconomistLos Angeles Times Book Prize Winner for Science and TechnologyIn March 1953 Maurice Wilkins of King's College London, announced the departure of his obstructive colleague, Rosalind Franklin to rival Cavendish Laboratory scientist, Francis Crick. B... ... Read more

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  • Fallout

    Hedley Marston and the atomic bomb tests in Australia

    by Roger Cross ...
    "Fallout" is the strange but true story of a celebrated Australian scientist's involvement in the 1956 British atomic bomb tests. Hedley Marston, an idol with his own feet of clay, was determined not only to reveal official lies and chicanery, but to expose as charlatans the Australian scientists who were appointed to protect the nation from any possible harm. Contrary to official pronouncements, ... Read more

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  • My Sister Rosalind Franklin

    by Jenifer Glynn ...
    Rosalind Franklin is famous in the history of science for her contribution to the discovery of the structure of DNA, the start of the greatest biological revolution of the twentieth century. Much has been written about the importance of her part, and about how her work was affected by her position as a woman scientist. Above all she was a distinguished scientist, not only in her work on DNA, but ... Read more

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  • The Clocks Are Telling Lies

    Science, Society, and the Construction of Time

    by Scott Johnston ...
    Until the nineteenth century all time was local time. On foot or on horseback, it was impossible to travel fast enough to care that noon was a few minutes earlier or later from one town to the next. The invention of railways and telegraphs, however, created a newly interconnected world where suddenly the time differences between cities mattered.The Clocks Are Telling Lies is an exploration of why ... Read more

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  • Michael Faraday

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Frank A.J.L James ...
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    Michael Faraday is one of the best known scientific figures of all time. Known as the discoverer of electro-magnetic induction, the principle behind the electric generator and transformer, he has frequently been portrayed as the 'father' of electrical engineering from whence much of his popular fame derives. This Very Short Introduction dispels the myth that Faraday was an experimental genius ... Read more

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  • Atomic Thunder

    British Nuclear Testing in Australia

    by Elizabeth Tynan ...
    An in-depth account of Great Britain's atomic testing efforts in South Australia in the 1950s and '60s, and its effects.British nuclear testing took place at Maralinga, South Australia, between 1956 and 1963, after Australian Prime Minister Robert Menzies had handed over 3,200 square kilometres of open desert to the British Government, without informing his own people. The atomic weapons test ... Read more

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  • Distilling the Frenzy

    Writing the History of One's Own Timed

    by Peter Hennessy ...
    In Distilling the Frenzy, the UK's leading contemporary historian examines the special considerations that apply to writing the history of one's own times, and revisits the grand themes running through the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He looks at Britain's persistent impulse to punch well above its weight in the world; at the sustenance of the nuclear weapons policy which has accompanied ... Read more

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  • Joe Pawsey and the Founding of Australian Radio Astronomy

    Early Discoveries, from the Sun to the Cosmos

    by W. M. Goss, Claire Hooker, Ronald D. Ekers ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This open access book is a biography of Joseph L. Pawsey. It examines not only his life but the birth and growth of the field of radio astronomy and the state of science itself in twentieth century Australia. The book explains how an isolated continent with limited resources grew to be one of the leaders in the study of radio astronomy and the design of instruments to do so.Pawsey made a name for ... Read more

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  • Shocking Bodies

    Life, Death and Electricity in Victorian England

    by Iwan Rhys Morus ...
    For the Victorians, electricity was the science of spectacle and of wonder. It provided them with new ways of probing the nature of reality and understanding themselves. Luigi Galvani's discovery of 'animal electricity' at the end of the eighteenth century opened up a whole new world of possibilities, in which electricity could cure sickness, restore sexual potency and even raise the dead. In ... Read more

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