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Author: Michael Brooks ,
Carl Freytag
Publisher: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden
Imprint: Springer Spektrum
Edition: 2014 ed.
Dimensions:
Width: 12.70cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 19.00cm
Weight: 0.483kg
ISBN: 9783642416958
ISBN 10: 3642416950
Pages: 398
Publication Date: 15 May 2014
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: German
Reviews
Eine ausserordentlich unterhaltsame Untersuchung der menschlichen Schwachen und Eigenheiten der Genies unter den Wissenschaftlern wunderbar! Robin Ince Brooks zeigt uns die radikalen Forscher: verruckt, bose und gefahrlich. The TimesRezensionen zur englischen Originalausgabe: 'Entertaining...an exuberant tour through the world of scientists behaving badly'New York Times Capers through the exploits of scores of brilliant and often ruthless rogues - some living, many long dead - who have won Nobel prizes or otherwise pushed science forward. Some of its biggest names turn out to be the dirtiest players'Financial Times 'Wants to strip the white lab coat off scientists and expose the hairy humanity beneath ... celebrates a rough side of science, and does so entertainingly'Sunday Times'Colourful ... fascinating and serious demonstration of how human foibles and creativity are inseparable, and how this fact is not so dangerous after all'Steven Poole, Guardian'Free Radicals reminds readers that scientific advances...require creativity and vision. 'A call to arms ... Not some idealistic crusade; it has important implications'Alok Jha, BBC Focus'A salutary reminder that scientists are as human and fallible as anyone else'Steve Jones, Daily Telegraph'Free Radicals is brash, freewheeling'Independent
Eine ausserordentlich unterhaltsame Untersuchung der menschlichen Schwachen und Eigenheiten der Genies unter den Wissenschaftlern wunderbar! Robin Ince Brooks zeigt uns die radikalen Forscher: verruckt, bose und gefahrlich. The Times Rezensionen zur englischen Originalausgabe: 'Entertaining...an exuberant tour through the world of scientists behaving badly'New York Times Capers through the exploits of scores of brilliant and often ruthless rogues - some living, many long dead - who have won Nobel prizes or otherwise pushed science forward. Some of its biggest names turn out to be the dirtiest players'Financial Times 'Wants to strip the white lab coat off scientists and expose the hairy humanity beneath ... celebrates a rough side of science, and does so entertainingly'Sunday Times 'Colourful ... fascinating and serious demonstration of how human foibles and creativity are inseparable, and how this fact is not so dangerous after all'Steven Poole, Guardian 'Free Radicals reminds readers that scientific advances...require creativity and vision. 'A call to arms ... Not some idealistic crusade; it has important implications'Alok Jha, BBC Focus 'A salutary reminder that scientists are as human and fallible as anyone else'Steve Jones, Daily Telegraph 'Free Radicals is brash, freewheeling'Independent
Author Information
Michael Brooks ist leitender Redakteur beim New Scientist und schreibt eine regelmäßige Kolumne für den New Statesman. Er hat Artikel für den Guardian, den Independent, den Observer und viele weitere Zeitungen und Zeitschriften verfasst und die Sachbücher Die großen Fragen - Physik (ebenfalls bei Springer Spektrum erschienen) und 13 unerklärliche Dinge: Die faszinierendsten wissenschaftlichen Rätsel unserer Zeit geschrieben. Brooks ist 1970 in Manchester geboren, hat in Quantenphysik promoviert und an der New York University, am American Museum of Natural History und an der Cambridge University unterrichtet. Er lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen beiden Kindern in Südengland. Website: michaelbrooks.org Michael Brooks ist der cleverste Wissenschaftsjournalist von allen. Und er schreibt mit Stil. The Independent
