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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Garrett, Alfred Benjamin, 1906-1996. Flash of genius. Princeton, N.J., Van Nostrand [1963] (OCoLC)594998170 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Alfred Benjamin Garrett |
| OCLC Number: | 520179 |
| Description: | 249 p. illus. 24 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. The discovery of the process of metallurgy of aluminum / Charles Martin Hall -- The discovery of teflon / Roy J. Plunkett -- The discovery of lead tetraethyl / Thomas Midgley, T.A. Boyd, and C.A. Hochwalt -- The discovery of freon / Thomas Midgley and Albert L. Henne -- The vulcanization of rubber / Charles Goodyear -- Cracking gasoline / William M. Burton -- The discovery of penicillin / Sir Alexander Fleming -- The discovery of insulin / Sir Frederick Banting -- Dynamite and Nobel prizes / Alfred Nobel -- The discovery of aniline dyes / Sir William Perkin -- Aeration whipping process / Charles A. Goetz -- The discovery of rayon / Hilaire de Chardonnet -- The discovery of nylon / Wallace Carothers -- The discovery of x-rays / W.C. Roentgen -- The discovery of radioactivity / Henri Becquerel -- The battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands and the synthesis and oxidation of ammonia / F. Haber and W. Ostwald -- The atomic theory / John Dalton -- The discovery of oxygen and the starting of a scientific revolution / Joseph Priestley -- The nature of combustion / Antoine Lavoisier -- The discovery of photosensitive plates / Louis Jacques Daguerre -- The linking of carbon atoms in hydrocarbons; the ring structure of benzene / F. August Kekule -- The discovery of the industrial process of making calcium carbide and acetylene / James T. Morehead, John M. Morehead, and T.L. Willson -- The discovery of helium / Pierre J.C. Janssen, Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer, and Sir William Ramsay -- The discovery of safety glass / Edouard Benedictus -- Mendel's Laws of heredity / Gregor Johann Mendel. pt. 2. Dating with carbon-14 / Willard F. Libby -- The birth of the concept of the nuclear atom / Sir Ernest Rutherford -- The Bohr Model of the atom / Niels Bohr -- The value of the charge on the nucleus of atoms -- atomic numbers / Henry G.J. Moseley -- The discovery of polonium and radium / Marie Curie and Pierre Curie -- The discovery of artificial radioactivity / Irene Joliot-Curie and Frederic Joliot-Curie -- Natural transmutation / Sir Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy -- The laws of transmutation and place in the Periodic Table / Frederick Soddy -- Artificial transmutation of elements / Sir Ernest Rutherford -- Isotopes I: the concept of the existence of isotopes / Frederick Soddy -- Isotopes II: the first separation of isotopes / F.W. Aston -- The discovery of the isotopes of oxygen / W.F. Giauque and Herrick L. Johnston -- The discovery of deuterium, H² / Harold C. Urey -- The famous molecular paradox / John Dalton ... [et al.] -- The quantum theory / Max Planck -- The Periodic Table / Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev -- The theory of ionization / Svante Arrhenius -- Cathode rays, evidence for the electron / J.J. Thomson -- The identification of the neutron / Sir James Chadwick -- The discovery of the positron / C.D. Anderson -- Birth of the concept that neutrinos must exit / W. Pauli -- The discovery of argon / Lord Rayleigh and Sir William Ramsay -- The synthesis of element 101 / A. Ghiorso, B.G Harvey ... [et al.] -- Radioactive tracers / George de Havesy -- The early concept of atomic energy / Sir Ernest Rutherford and Frederick Soddy -- The discovery of the fission process / Lise Meitner and O.R. Frisch -- The discovery of the photosynthetic carbon dioxide cycle / Melvin Calvin. |
Abstract:
How is an idea born? Here is stories showing insights into the discovery process, a picture of the creative mind out of which our major advances over the centuries have been made. The first twenty-five stories in part one are about the important discoveries that have shaped our lives, while part 2 comprised of twenty-six stories, requires some familiarity with modern chemistry and physics.
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