Promoting the Planck Club presents rich mini histories of selected scientists whose work led to radical and transformational discoveries, their background, the prevailing scientific environment, and the conditions that allowed for their success. The text provides a broad audience of students, scientists, engineers, economists, and policymakers with ways to ensure that we take all steps to protect the flow of unpredictable scientific discoveries that are necessary for sustained lev...
Tabela de Conteúdo
List of Posters ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Accidents, Coincidences, and the Luck of the Draw: How Benjamin Thompson and Humph...
Sobre o autor
DONALD W. BRABEN, PHD, is an honorary professor at University College London, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, and Founder of Venture Research International Ltd. ...