I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity

Name: I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on Science, Scientists, and Humanity
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ISBN: 9780879696740

ISBN-10: 0879696745

ISBN-13: 9780879696740

Edition: 2003

Authors: Max F. Perutz

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Book details

List price: $18.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Publication date: 12/19/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 460
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Ploughshares into Swords


Friend or Foe of Mankind?


Splitting the Atom


The Man Who Patented the Bomb


Why Did the Germans Not Make the Bomb?


Bomb Designer Turned Dissident


Liberating France


Enemy Alien


The Threat of Biological Weapons


How to Make Discoveries


High on Science


Deconstructing Pasteur


The Battle Over Vitamin C


A Mystery of the Tropics


The Forgotten Plague


What Holds Molecules Together?


I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier


Big Fleas Have Little Fleas...


How the Secret of Life Was Discovered


Dangerous Misprints


A Deadly Inheritance


Darwin Was Right


A Passion for Crystals


The Top Designer


The Great Sage


It Ain't Necessarily So


Photo Gallery


Rights and Wrongs


By What Right Do We Invoke Human Rights?


The Right to Choose


Swords into Ploughshares: Does Nuclear Energy Endanger Us?


What If?


More about Discoveries


The Second Secret of Life


How W.L. Bragg Invented X-ray Analysis


Life's Energy Cycle


The Hormone That Makes Nerves Grow


How Nerves Conduct Electricity


In Pursuit of Peace and Protein


Keilin and the Molteno


Growing Up among the Elements


Friendly Way to Science


The Scientific and Humane Legacy of Max Perutz (1914-2002)


My Commonplace Book


Notes and References


Subject Index