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Innovators - 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition—From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson
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Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the
world—and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them
Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don’t
receive widespread recognition until decades later, sometimes after
their author’s death. Nobel Prize–winner Max Planck, whose
black-body radiation law established the discipline of quantum
mechanics, stated this as what has become known as Planck’s
principle, commonly summarized as “Science progresses one funeral
at a time.” In other words, for some truly groundbreaking
discoveries, a new consensus builds only when proponents of the old
consensus die off. Breakthrough discoveries require a paradigm
shift, and it takes time and new minds for the new paradigm to be
adopted. In Innovators, Donald Kirsch tells the stories of
sixteen visionary scientists who suffered this fate, some now
famous like Max Planck himself, Galileo, and Gregor Mendel, and
some less well known. Among them are Barbara McClintock who,
working with Indian corn, discovered transposons, also known as
jumping genes, which provide a major mechanism driving biological
evolution; Rachel Carson, catalyst for the environmental movement;
and Roger Revelle, the climatologist whose findings were the first
to be described by the term “global warming.” The breakthroughs
cover fields from biology to medicine to physics and earth sciences
and include the discovery of prions, life-changing treatments such
as drugs for high blood pressure, ulcers, and organ
transplantation; the process of continental drift; and our
understanding of how molecules form matter.
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Imprint: |
Arcade Publishing
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
November 2023 |
Authors: |
Donald R. Kirsch
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Dimensions: |
210 x 140 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Pages: |
360 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-956763-39-3 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
1-956763-39-2 |
Barcode: |
9781956763393 |
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