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Published by Oxford University Press, 1991
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- Title
- Is Science Necessary?: Essays on Science and Scientists
- Author
- Max Perutz
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Publication year
- 1991
- Condition
- Good
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0192861182
- ISBN 13
- 9780192861184
- Item weight
- 0.64 pounds
This book demolishes the caricature of the scientist as a "soulless hermit toiling away at abstruse problems he cannot explain except in incomprehensible gibberish". Nobel Prize-winning chemist Max Perutz demonstrates the need for an intelligent application and understanding of science in this collection of essays that ranges from science's role in food production, health, and energy to pen portraits of Fleming, Rutherford, Plank, and Weizmann. The book should be of interest to undergraduates across all science subjects and people interested in the philosophy of science.
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About the Author
About the Author:
Max F. Perutz was winner of the 1962 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. His other awards include the Royal Medal of the Royal Society, the Copley Medal of the Royal Society, and the Her Majesty the Queen's Order of Merit.
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