How to Dunk a Doughnut: Using Science in Everyday Life - Softcover

Fisher, Len

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753817055 ISBN 13: 9780753817056

Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2003

Synopsis

Science is all around us. In this brilliant, entertaining book, Len Fisher provides scientific answers to familiar questions such as how to boil the perfect egg, how to catch a ball, the physics of sex, and why some vegetables absorb more gravy than others...In doing so, he reveals the world of the scientist - how they think, what they do, and how they go about doing it - proving that even the most commonplace activities can be used as a key to understanding the laws of nature and that experimental science can be fun!

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About the Author

Recipient of an IgNobel Prize for his studies on the physics of biscuit dunking, and voted an enemy of the people by The Times for research into the way roast dinners absorb gravy, Len Fisher is a tireless promoter and populariser of science. He moved to England in 1989 following a career that began in food research, but has included forays into biomedicine, mining engineering, surface science, fundamental physics and philosophy. He is currently Honorary Research Fellow in the Physics Department, University of Bristol.

Edition details

• Publisher: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0753817055
• ISBN 13: 9780753817056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240