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Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes - Hardcover

Book 5 of 6: Popular Science

Gratzer, Walter

 
9780192804037: Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes

Synopsis

From the murder of Archimedes by a Roman soldier to the most recent scientific breakthroughs, an enthralling collection of tales from the annals of science

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About the Author

Walter Gratzer is a biophysicist at the Randall Centre for Molecular Mechanisms of Cell Function, King's College London. He is known to a wide readership through his book reviews, most of which have appeared regularly in Nature: they are invariably models of clarity and elegance. He edited The Longman Literary Companion to Science (published in the USA as The Literary Companion to Science) and The Bedside Nature, and he is author of The Undergrowth of Science: Delusion, Self-Deception and Human Frailty (OUP, 2000).

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