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Author:   Charles Tanford (Emeritus Professor, Duke University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.200kg
ISBN:  

9780192804945

ISBN 10:   0192804944
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   22 April 2004
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 1: Introduction 2: Benjamin Franklin 3: Friends and Influences 4: The French Connection 5: Pliny the Elder 6: Eighteenth-Century Science 7: Franklin's Experiment: The Observation 8: How Small is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make 9: One Hundred Years Later: Science Comes of Age 10: Lord Rayleigh 11: Meticulous Miss Pockels 12: Comrades in the Search: The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics 13: Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation) 14: In Praise of Water 15: Irving Langmuir - Cells and Membranes 16: Biology - Cells and Membranes 17: Ernest Overton: Gentle Genius 18: Gorter and Grendel: A Factor of Two 19: Epilogue - The Biological Frontier Bibliography Index

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Charles Tanford is Emeritus Professor at Duke University, Durham, NC, USA and a former Guggenheim Fellow. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and lives in Easingwold, UK.

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