The human side of science : Edison and Tesla, Watson and Crick, and other personal stories behind science's big ideas /
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Amherst, New York :
Prometheus Books,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Democritus and Aristotle ponder the existence of atoms
- Aristotle, Aristarchus, Copernicus, and Galileo seek to determine Earth's place in the cosmos
- Isaac Newton, Robert Hooke, and Gottfried Leibniz argue about motion and calculus
- The battling Bernoullis and Bernoulli's principle
- Antoine Lavoisier and Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) have rival theories about heat
- Mendeleev, Meyer, Moseley, and the birth of the periodic table
- Westinghouse/Tesla vs. Edison : AC/DC titans clash
- Alfred Wegener stands his ground about continental drift
- Albert Einstein, Marcel Grossmann, Mileva Maric and Michele Besso struggle with relativity
- Part 2 : Albert Einstein's struggles continue
- Edwin Hubble and Harlow Shapley clash/cooperate over the universe's Size
- Disastrous consequences of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn's discovery of nuclear fission
- Maurice Wilkins, Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick determine the structure of DNA
- J. Craig Venter, James Watson, and Michael Hunkapiller race for the human genome
- Honorable mention mini-chapters.