Cambridge scientific minds

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Title:

Cambridge scientific minds

Author:

Harman, P. M. (Peter Michael), 1943-

Publication Information:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2002]

Physical Description:

viii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language:

English

Contents:

William Gilbert -- William Harvey -- Isaac Newton: creator of the Cambridge scientific tradition -- William Whewell: a Cambridge historian and philosopher of science -- Adam Sedgwick: a confident mind in turmoil -- Charles Babbage: science and reform -- Charles Darwin -- Stokes and Kelvin, Cambridge and Glasgow, light and heat -- James Clerk Maxwell -- The duo from Trinity: A. N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell on the foundations of mathematics, 1895-1925 -- Thomson, Rutherford and atomic physics at the Cavendish -- Hopkins and biochemistry -- Charles Sherrington, E. D. Adrian, and Henry Dale: the Cambridge Physiological Laboratory and the physiology of the nervous system -- Hardy and Littlewood -- Arthur Stanley Eddington -- Paul Dirac: a quantum genius -- Alan Turing -- Francis Crick and James Watson -- Mary Cartwright -- Joseph Needham -- Molecular biology in Cambridge -- The discovery of pulsars--prelude and aftermath -- Stephen W. Hawking.

Corporate Subject:

University of Cambridge -- History.

Subject Term:

Scientists -- England -- Cambridge -- Biography.

Science -- England -- Cambridge -- History.

Added Author:

Harman, P. M. (Peter Michael), 1943-

Mitton, Simon, 1946-

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/cam021/2001025664.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/cam021/2001025664.html

ISBN:

9780521781008