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Free radicals : the secret anarchy of science

Author: Michael Brooks
Publisher: New York : Overlook Press, 2012.
Edition/Format:  Print book : English : 1st U.S. hardcover edView all editions and formats
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Reveals the extreme lengths to which scientists have gone to make discoveries, sharing colorful stories of drug use, mystical visions, and cheating by famous figures from Newton and Einstein to Watson and Crick.
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Genre/Form: History
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Michael Brooks
ISBN: 9781590208540 1590208544
OCLC Number: 786276600
Notes: Originally published: Great Britain : Profile Books, 2011.
Description: 311 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents: How it begins : dreams, drugs and visions from God --
The delinquents : rules are there to be broken --
Masters of illusion : evidence isn't everything --
Playing with fire : no pain, no gain --
Sacrilege : breaking taboos is part of the game --
Fight club : there's no prize for the runner-up --
Defending the throne : Machiavelli would be proud --
In the line of fire : life on the barricades.
Other Titles: Secret anarchy of science
Responsibility: Michael Brooks.
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Reveals the extreme lengths to which scientists have gone to make discoveries, sharing colorful stories of drug use, mystical visions, and cheating by famous figures from Newton and Einstein to Watson and Crick.

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