Eurekas and Euphorias

Eurekas and Euphorias PDF Author: Walter Gratzer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198609407
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Book Description
A collection of fascinating stories, entertainingly told, revealing the human face of science. Eurekas and Euphorias encompasses some 200 anecdotes brilliantly illustrating scientists in all their shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. Told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer, here are stories to delight, astonish, instruct, and most especially, entertain the general reader, scientist and non-scientist alike.