The discoveries : great breakthroughs in 20th-century science, including the original papers
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
The discoveries : great breakthroughs in 20th-century science, including the original papers
AUTHOR:
Lightman, Alan P., 1948-
ISBN:
9780375713453
EDITION:
1st ed.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Vintage, 2006.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
xviii, 553 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
GENERAL_NOTE:
Includes index.
ABSTRACT:
Discusses and presents the original papers announcing twenty-two great discoveries in twentieth-century scientific history, covering such subjects as special relativity, the expansion of the universe, antibiotics, nuclear fission, DNA, and quarks.
SUBJECT:
| Discoveries in science -- Historiography. |
| Discoveries in science -- History -- 20th century. |
| Science -- Historiography. |
| Natuurwetenschappen. |
| Ontdekkingen. |
| Doorbraken. |
BIBSUMMARY:
Discusses and presents the original papers announcing twenty-two great discoveries in twentieth-century scientific history, covering such subjects as special relativity, the expansion of the universe, antibiotics, nuclear fission, DNA, and quarks.