Random Walk in Science an Anthology,9780854980277

Random Walk in Science an Anthology

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ISBN13: 9780854980277
ISBN10: 085498027X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1974-05-01
Publisher(s): Adam Hilger
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Summary

This anthology provides an insight into the wit and intellect of the scientific mind through a blend of amusing and serious contributions written by and about scientists. The contributions record changing attitudes within science and mirror the interactions of science with society.

Table of Contents

Foreword v
William Cooper
Introduction xv
Robert L Weber
Eric Mendoza
When does jam become marmalade?
1(2)
H B G Casimir
In defence of pure research
3(1)
J J Thomson
Keeping up with science
4(2)
L Feleki
Sir Francis Simon
6(1)
N Kurti
Cuts by the score
7(1)
Anon
The theorist
7(1)
The theory of practical joking---its relevance to physics
8(7)
R V Jones
New university---1229
15(1)
Lynn Thorndike
The Smithsonian Institution
15(1)
Lewis Selye
Atmospheric extravaganza
16(4)
John Herapath
Little Miss Muffet
20(1)
F Winsor
The Academy
21(1)
Jonathan Swift
The triumph of reason
22(1)
Bert Liston Taylor
American Institute of Useless Research
23(1)
Remarks on the quantum theory of the absolute zero of temperature
24(1)
G Beck
H Bethe
W Riezler
A contribution to the mathematical theory of big game hunting
25(3)
H Petard
Fission and superstition HMK
28(1)
The uses of fallacy
29(4)
Paul V Dunmore
Basic science
33(1)
Anon
On the nature of mathematical proofs
34(2)
Joel E Cohen
Arrogance in physics
36(1)
Laura Fermi
What do physicists do?
37(1)
Physics terms made easy
38(1)
Anon
Humphry Davy's first experiments
39(3)
Humphry Davy
EN daCAndrade
Maxwell's aether
42(1)
James Clerk Maxwell
Style in physics
43(1)
Ludwig Boltzmann
An Experiment to prove that Water is more elastic than Air
44(2)
John Clayton
Three jolly sailors
46(1)
F Winsor
H A Rowland
46(1)
Paul Kirkpatrick
Confrontation
47(1)
Maurice Caullery
Andree Tetry
Getting bubble chambers accepted by the world of professional physicists
48(1)
Donald A Glaser
Bunsen burner
48(2)
Henry Roscoe
Rutherford and Nature's whispers
50(1)
A S Russell
The organization of research---1920
51(1)
W M Wheeler
Solar eclipse
52(1)
Reinhold Gerharz
How Newton discovered the law of gravitation
53(6)
James E Miller
Graduate students
59(1)
P M S Blackett
Epigrams
59(1)
Alexander Pope
Sir John Collins Squire
Take away your billion dollars
60(1)
Arthur Roberts
Standards for inconsequential trivia
61(1)
Philip A Simpson
How radar began
62(2)
A P Rowe
Building research
64(1)
R V Jones
Perils of modern living
65(1)
H P Furth
Predictions and comments
66(2)
Little Willie
68(1)
Dorothy Rickard
Which units of length?
69(1)
Pamela Anderton
Alpher, Bethe and Gamow
70(1)
R A Alpher
R Herman
Electromagnetic Units: 1
71(1)
Electromagnetic units: 2
71(2)
H B G Casimir
British Units
73(1)
Therapy
74(1)
J P Joule
Infancy of x-rays
75(1)
G E M Jauncey
Faraday lectures
76(1)
Michael Faraday
N rays
77(3)
R W Wood
My initiation
80(3)
L Rosenfeld
Frank Jewett
83(1)
Paul E Klopsteg
Inertia of a broomstick
84(1)
Gaston Tissandier
Pneumatic experiment
85(1)
Lady Holland
James Gillray
The high standard of education in Scotland
85(1)
Sir W L Bragg
Theoretical zipperdynamics
86(3)
H J Zipkin
Atomic medicine
89(1)
John H Lawrence
100 authors against Einstein
90(2)
A von Brunn
Ultraviolet catastrophe
92(1)
H Poincare
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions
93(1)
Edwin A Abbott
Schools of physics
94(1)
How a theoretical physicist works
95(3)
V Berezinsky
The art of finding the right graph paper
98(2)
S A Rudin
On the imperturbability of elevator operators: LVII
100(3)
John Sykes
The analysis of contemporary music using harmonious oscillator wave functions
103(1)
H J Lipkin
Researchers' prayer
104(1)
Anon
Turboencabulator
105(1)
J H Quick
Heaven is hotter than Hell
106(1)
On the feasibility of coal-driven power stations
107(2)
O R Frisch
Bedside manner
109(1)
A theory of ghosts
110(5)
D A Wright
A stress analysis of a strapless evening gown
115(2)
Two classroom stories
117(1)
Robert Weinstock
Murphy's law
118(1)
D L Klipstein
Thermoelectric effect
119(1)
A glossary for research reports
120(2)
C D Graham Jr
Why we must go to the Moon
122(1)
Charles G Tierney
Face to face with metrication
123(1)
Norman Stone
Life on Earth (by a Martian)
124(13)
Paul A Weiss
The high energy physics colouring book
137(2)
H J Lipkin
Snakes and Ladders
139(1)
P J Duke
Do-it-yourself CERN Courier writing kit
139(2)
Gulliver's computer
141(2)
Jonathan Swift
Haiku
143(1)
Textbook selection
144(1)
Malcolm Johnson
Computer, B.Sc. (failed)
145(1)
E Mendoza
Collective names in basic sciences
146(1)
Anon
The Chaostron. An important advance in learning machines
147(3)
J B Cadwallader-Cohen
W W Zysiczk
R R Donelley
Physics is too young
150(1)
William Whewell
Yes, Virginia
151(2)
V E Eaton
How to learn
153(1)
Lewis Carroll
The nature of evidence
154(1)
Isaac Todhunter
School leaving exam
155(1)
Where to hold nuclear spectroscopy conferences in Russia
156(1)
Typical examination questions as a guide to graduate students studying for prelims
157(2)
H J Lipkin
Big Science and Lesser Sciences
159(1)
P M S Blackett
Oral examination procedure
160(1)
S D Mason
Fluorescent yield
161(1)
Arthur H Snell
Slidesmanship
162(5)
D H Wilkinson
A conference glossary
167(1)
David Kritchevsky
R J Van der Wal
Valentine from a Telegraph Clerk to a Telegraph Clerk
168(1)
James Clerk Maxwell
Enrico Fermi
169(1)
Emilio Segre
The parrot and the carrot
169(1)
R W Wood
The bee, the beet and the beetle
170(1)
R W Wood
Absent-minded
170(1)
Henry Roscoe
The Mason-Dixon line
171(2)
Toothed wheels
173(1)
The transit of Venus
174(3)
Jeremiah Horrox
Lines inspired by a lecture on extra-terrestrial life
177(1)
J D G M
Postprandial: Ions mine
178(1)
J J E Durack
The trial of Galileo
179(8)
F Sherwood Taylor
Newton and Facts
187(1)
D Bentley
John Dalton's discovery of his colour blindness
188(1)
Paris, May 1832
189(2)
Ian Stewart
Hippolyte Carnot
Pulsars in poetry
191(1)
Jay M Pasachoff
Clouds, 1900
191(1)
Lord Kelvin
An awkward incident
192(1)
Sir W L Bragg
Shoulders of giants
192(1)
Robert K Merton
Rotating dog
193(1)
William Garnett
Answer man
193(1)
Home run
193(2)
The pulsar's Pindar
195(1)
Dietrick E Thomsen
Jonathan Eberhart
Walter Nernst
196(1)
Edgar W Kutzscher
Self-frustration
197(2)
R V Jones
Unsung heroes---I: J-B Moire
199(2)
Simplicius
Unsung heroes---II: Juan Hernandez Torsion Herrera Col.
201(1)
Douglas Lindsay
Capt. James Ketchum
Wolfgang Pauli
201(1)
Eugene P Wigner
Scientific method
202(1)
Adolph Baker
Pebbles and Shells
203(1)
Isaac Newton
Acknowledgements 204

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