Braben Promoting the Planck Club

How Defiant Youth, Irreverent Researchers and Liberated Universities Can Foster Prosperity Indefinitely
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-54636-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 238 Seiten, E-Book

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 levels of growth as well as ways to ensure that all steps are taken to protect the flow of unpredictable scientific discoveries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Braben, Donald W.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Posters ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Accidents, Coincidences, and the Luck of the Draw: How BenjaminThompson and Humphry Davy Enabled Michael Faraday to Electrify theWorld 16
Chapter 2
Science, Technology, and Economic Growth: Can Their MagicalRelationships Be Controlled? 27
Chapter 3
Max Planck: A Reluctant Revolutionary with a Hunger of the Soul38
Chapter 4
The Golden Age of Physics 50
Chapter 5
Oswald T. Avery: A Modest Diminutive Introverted ScientificHeavyweight 79
Chapter 6
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992): A Patient, Integrating,Maverick Interpreter of Living Systems 89
Chapter 7
Charles Townes: A Meticulously Careful Scientific Adventurer 99
Chapter 8
Carl Woese: A Staunch Advocate for Classical Biology 110
Chapter 9
Peter Mitchell: A High-Minded Creative and Courageous BioenergeticsAccountant 126
Chapter 10
Harry Kroto: An Artistic and Adventurous Chemist with a Flair forAstrophysics 139
Chapter 11
John Mattick: A Prominent Critic of Dogma and a Pioneer of the IdeaThat Genomes Contain Hidden Sources of Regulation 158
Chapter 12
Conclusions: How We Can Foster Prosperity Indefinitely 174
Appendix 1
Open Letter to Research Councils UK from Donald W. Braben andOthers Published in Times Higher
Education, November 5, 2009 194
Appendix 2
Global Warming: A Coherent Approach 197
References 201
Index 206

Über Autor(innen)

DONALD W. BRABEN, PHD, is an honorary professor atUniversity College London, a Fellow of the Institute of Physics,and Founder of Venture Research International Ltd. He spent some 16years in particle physics, followed by spells in the Cabinet Officeand Science Research Council headquarters before beginning his longassociation with Venture Research in 1980. Dr. Braben is the authorof Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization and PioneeringResearch: A Risk Worth Taking (both from Wiley).