Remarkable Discoveries! (Paperback, Revised)

Cambridge University Press continues to maintain the high standards set by the first books in its new popular science series. Although a biochemist by trade, Frank Ashall spreads his net eclectically across the world of scientific research to recount stories about electricity and radio waves, the quantum world, relativity, and the Big Bang, as well as the contributions to be expected on disease, drugs and DNA. Easy to read, fun to dip into, and provided with a good bibliography to enable the interested reader to pursue more detailed investigations of topics that whet his or her appetite. (Kirkus UK)

Remarkable Discoveries shows how scientists have made great discoveries that have pushed back the frontiers of knowledge and have changed the way we look at the world. Frank Ashall, scientist and writer, takes us on a magical mystery tour of eighteen major scientific discoveries. Electricity, X-rays, DNA fingerprinting and the Big Bang are but a few of the achievements on which the author writes. We delve into the world of the researcher and experience the excitement as each discovery is unfolded. Can we thank chance or just intelligence and hard work for the scientists' success? The personalities, the trials, the triumphs are all here. Remarkable Discoveries takes the reader on an exhilarating tour through some of the major scientific discoveries that have benefited humanity.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 1996
First published:	1994
Authors:	Frank Ashall (Retired Physician/Assistant Professor of Biochemistry)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	292
Edition:	Revised
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-58953-6
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
LSN:	0-521-58953-3
Barcode:	9780521589536

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