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- ISBN
- 9781956763393
- Book Title
- Innovators : 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition--From Galileo to Barbara Mcclintock and Rachel Carson
- Item Length
- 8.2in
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.6in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Science
- Topic
- Women, History, Science & Technology
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 15 oz
- Number of Pages
- 360 Pages
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Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world--and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don't receive widespread recognition until decades later, sometimes after their author's death. Nobel Prize-winner Max Planck, whose black-body radiation law established the discipline of quantum mechanics, stated this as what has become known as Planck's principle, commonly summarized as "Science progresses one funeral at a time." In other words, for some truly groundbreaking discoveries, a new consensus builds only when proponents of the old consensus die off. Breakthrough discoveries require a paradigm shift, and it takes time and new minds for the new paradigm to be adopted. In Innovators , Donald Kirsch tells the stories of sixteen visionary scientists who suffered this fate, some now famous like Max Planck himself, Galileo, and Gregor Mendel, and some less well known. Among them are Barbara McClintock who, working with Indian corn, discovered transposons, also known as jumping genes, which provide a major mechanism driving biological evolution; Rachel Carson, catalyst for the environmental movement; and Roger Revelle, the climatologist whose findings were the first to be described by the term "global warming." The breakthroughs cover fields from biology to medicine to physics and earth sciences and include the discovery of prions, life-changing treatments such as drugs for high blood pressure, ulcers, and organ transplantation; the process of continental drift; and our understanding of how molecules form matter.
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Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1956763392
ISBN-13
9781956763393
eBay Product ID (ePID)
27059009340
Product Key Features
Book Title
Innovators : 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition--From Galileo to Barbara Mcclintock and Rachel Carson
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Women, History, Science & Technology
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Science
Number of Pages
360 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.2in
Item Height
1.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
15 oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Q141
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"A must-read for science educators! These vivid vignettes of creative, pioneering scientists tell the surprising backstory of their work, which often included hardships, ridicule, and outright persecution. Importantly, their perseverance and how their discoveries influenced scientific thinking are at the heart of each portrait. Every enlightening chapter conveys the very human nature of scientific thinking and progress."--Steven R. Heidemann, Professor Emeritus, Dept. Physiology, Michigan State Univ.; Merle L. Heidemann, Senior Specialist Emerita, Division of Science and Math Education, Michigan State Univ. "We take for granted many innovations, but once established the struggles of the scientists who gave birth to them are soon forgotten. Donald Kirsch takes a retrospective look at key inventions and the trials of nonacceptance, stigma, and disbelief their authors faced. He provides a real-world view of the struggles they surmounted in bringing novel ideas to the world."--Eric Gordon, Adjunct Professor, Stanford University
Dewey Decimal
509.22
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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Yes
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