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JOHN ZIMAN - Of One Mind. The Collectivization of Science

Title: Of One Mind. The Collectivization of Science
Description: Springer Science & Business Media, 1997. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 407. This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists-Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how claims are tested. He then travels into the minds of scientists as they are drawn into competing directions. Here Ziman exposes the path of discovery, which is strewn with complex human needs, governmental restrictions, the desire for profits, and the exercise of technical virtuosity. ISBN: 9781563960659. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

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