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Real Science: What it Is and What it Means - Softcover

Ziman

 
9780521893107: Real Science: What it Is and What it Means
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521893100 ISBN 13: 9780521893107
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

A systematic, carefully reasoned, but non-technical analysis of the nature and significance of scientific knowledge.

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About the Author

John Ziman is well known internationally for his many scholarly and popular books on condensed-matter physics and on science, technology and society. He was born in 1925, and was brought up in New Zealand. He took his DPhil at Oxford and lectured at Cambridge before becoming Professor of Theoretical Physics at Bristol in 1964. His research on the electrical properties of metals earned his election to the Royal Society in 1967. After voluntary early retirement from Bristol in 1982 he devoted himself to the systematic analysis and public exposition of various aspects of the social relations of science and technology, on which he is a recognised world authority. He was for many years chairman of the council for Science and Society, and between 1986 and 1991 he headed the Science Policy Support Group. He is currently Convenor of the Epistemology Group.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521893100
ISBN 13 
9780521893107
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
412