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Royal Institution of Great Britain: v.69

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Description

The latest selection of discourses from the Royal Institution includes discussion of the implications of extraterrestrial life for life on Earth, the significance of meteorites, a celebration of the electron, and the impact of Humphrey Davy's experiemnts on Samuel Coleridge. This book is intended for all those with a broad interest in science, including New Scientist readers, and scientists from all disciplines.Table of Content1: Sir Arnold Wolfendale: The search for extraterrestrial life and the future of life on earth. 2: David McKenzie: Magellan looks at Venus. 3: Monica Grady: Meteorites: messengers from the past. 4: Will Wyatt: Television beyond the Millenium. 5: Peter Day: Molecular information processing: will it happen?. 6: Andrew Wallard: 'There or thereabouts'. 7: John Burland: Pondering on Pisa. 8: Robin Clark: An arts/science interface: medieval manuscripts, pigments, and spectroscopy. 9: Norman Myers: Disappearing species: problems and opportunities. 10: Kuniaki Nagayama: Self-assembly: nature's way. 11: Robert Cahn: Metals combined, or chaos vanquished. 12: Mike Garrett: On the air. 13: John Pickett: Insects and chemical signals: a volatile situation. 14: Roy Aylott: Tower Bridge - enduring monument or victorian folly?. 15: Sir Brian Pippard: One hundred years of the electron. 16: Richard Holmes: The Coleridge experiment. The Royal Institution discourses

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9780198503668
Author: Day Peter
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1998-07-01
Binding: hardcover
Condition: new
Pages: 347
Language: english
Country of Origin: United States
Weight (g): 400
Height (mm): 30
Length (mm): 198
Width (mm): 132

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