In Our Own Image : Personal Symmetry in Discovery /

This book inquires into the nature of scientific discovery. The focus is on six personalities and six scientific fields: Johannes Kepler and modeling, Buckminster Fuller and molecules, Linus Pauling and helices of biological systems, A. Kitaiigorodskii and packing of shapes, D.J. Bernal and quasicry...

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Main Author:	Hargittai, István
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Hargittai, Magdolna
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Boston, MA : Springer US, 2000.
Subjects:	Medicine. Chemistry. Life sciences. Physics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book