The story of the unorthodox and inspiring life and career of a pioneering biologist Scientist Rosemary Grant's journey in life has involved detours and sidestepsnot the shortest or the straightest of paths, but one that has led her to the top of evolutionary biology.
The thirtieth anniversary of the death of Beppo Occhialini, the cosmic-ray physicist associated among other things to the fundamental discoveries of the electron-positron pairs and of the pion thanks to his contributions to the development of the controlled cloud chamber and of new nuclear emulsions, is the occasion to publish his memoirs on the main events of his scientific life, which he dictated shortly before his death.
A carefully rendered portrait of a brilliant but troubled daughter of the Old South who struggled against the conventions of gender, class, family, and ultimately of sanity, yet survived to define a creative life of her own Sara Mayfield was born into Alabama's governing elite in 1905 and grew up in a social circle that included Zelda Sayre, Sara Haardt, and Tallulah and Eugenia Bankhead.
The thirtieth anniversary of the death of Beppo Occhialini, the cosmic-ray physicist associated among other things to the fundamental discoveries of the electron-positron pairs and of the pion thanks to his contributions to the development of the controlled cloud chamber and of new nuclear emulsions, is the occasion to publish his memoirs on the main events of his scientific life, which he dictated shortly before his death.
Dieses eBook: "Französische Staatsmänner: Gesammelte Biografien" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Dans ce livre, Alain Fischer raconte son parcours de médecin, pédiatre, spécialiste des maladies du système immunitaire et chercheur à l’hôpital Necker-Enfants malades à Paris.
En las próximas décadas el envejecimiento será el principal fenómeno demográfico que caracterice a la dinámica poblacional de la región y, como tal, requiere un abordaje multidisciplinario que permita comprender la vejez como proceso individual y colectivo desde distintas dimensiones.
Isaac Newton, berühmt als Vater der modernen Physik und Schöpfer der Gravitationstheorie, war nicht nur ein Pionier der Wissenschaft, sondern auch ein tiefgründiger Denker, dessen esoterische und alchemistische Studien oft im Schatten seiner mathematischen und physikalischen Errungenschaften stehen.
Die Frankfurter Schule steht für ein Spektrum von Intellektuellen, die langfristig oder zeitweilig dem 1924 in Frankfurt am Main gegründeten Institut für Sozialforschung und dessen Projekt einer kritischen Theorie der Gesellschaft verbunden waren.
In diesem Roman mit autobiographischen Zügen schildert der technikbegeisterte Jules Verne die Überfahrt auf der von Isambard Kingdom Brunel gebauten Great Eastern in die Vereinigten Staaten, die er so tatsächlich im Frühjahr 1867 mit seinem Bruder Paul Verne als Passagier angetreten hat.
This book highlights the numerous important contributions that Einstein made to physics-aside from his relativity theories-and places each of his achievements in the corresponding context, referring en route to the original sources.
This book highlights the numerous important contributions that Einstein made to physics-aside from his relativity theories-and places each of his achievements in the corresponding context, referring en route to the original sources.
This book provides a detailed biographical account of the industrious late nineteenth-century astronomer William Frederick Denning who, in later life, rose to be a celebrated public figure and a highly respected amateur astronomer.
Mit ihrer qualitativen Studie hat Sara Marquard differenziert und empirisch belastbar untersucht, wie Frauen mit einer fortgeschrittenen Brustkrebserkrankung ihre körperlichen Beeinträchtigungen erleben.
'An excitable, high-octane account' - IndependentIn October 2022, Elon Musk marched through Twitter's front doors after buying the digital giant for $44 billion.
Desde una mirada integral y crítica, Juan Martín Rodríguez Casopresenta la figura de uno de los científicos más influyentes de la historia: Charles Darwin, el padre del naturalismo, y habilitará al lector a repensar su ateísmo históricamente difundido.
Este libro se enmarca en una serie de publicaciones dedicada a la vida y obra de científicos del siglo XIX y a la relación, a veces problemática, entre ciencia y religión.
Nostradamus, The Man Who Saw Through Time by Lee McCann is a concise and insightful exploration of the life and prophecies of the famous French seer, Nostradamus.
