Télécharger le livre :  Passion for Excellence
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This book chronicles the life and career of Haralampos M. Moutsopoulos,?an internationally?renowned professor of medicine and prolific researcher on Sjögren’s syndrome and autoimmune rheumatic diseases. In language that is simple and direct, he takes us on a fascinating...

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Parution : 2025-02-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Denise Scott Brown
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Denise Scott Brown is best known as part of one of the most acclaimed architectural partnerships in modern architectural history,Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi. Together with Venturi, she ran the firm Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates (VSBA). Their architectural...

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Parution : 2023-08-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Flight Not Improbable
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This book is a must-read for all those interested in the evolution of airplanes.Its protagonist, Octave Chanute, is best known for his scientific and collaborative approach to the engineering problems related to the development of flight and for the support he gave to...

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Parution : 2023-05-21
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Télécharger le livre :  Ralph Edwards: RARE EVENTS
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Medical treatments designed to help people can also be harmful or fatal. Around 2.5 million people die this way each year. So if any kind of medicine makes someone unwell, they or their doctor should report it. Those reports, from nearly every country in the world, go...

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Parution : 2023-01-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Karl Popper
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Karl R. Popper is widely regarded as one of the most influential 20th century philosophers. In this new biography, Weinert provides a comprehensive and accessible account of his life and work, also addressing Popper’s role as a public intellectual. Drawing on a wide...

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Parution : 2023-01-01
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Télécharger le livre :  Psychiatry and the Human Condition
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This book is the result of extensive archival research conducted on the Collection “Silvano Arieti Papers” held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. It offers readers the first scientific biography of the renowned...

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Parution : 2022-10-31
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Télécharger le livre :  My Life in Space Exploration
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This book tells the inside story of Germany's first contributions to space research by experiments with artificial plasma clouds in space. In this autobiography, Gerhard Haerendel, former director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, describes his...

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Parution : 2022-09-30
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Télécharger le livre :  Bruno Touschek's Extraordinary Journey
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This book tells the story of a unique scientific and human adventure, following the life and science of Bruno Touschek, an Austrian born physicist, who conceived and built AdA, the first matter-antimatter colliding-beam storage ring, the ancestor of the Large Hadron...

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Parution : 2022-09-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Kurt Gödel
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During his lifetime, Kurt Gödel was not well known outside the professional world of mathematicians, philosophers and theoretical physicists. Early in his career, for his doctoral thesis and then for his Habilitation (Dr.Sci.), he wrote earthshaking...

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Parution : 2022-09-08
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Télécharger le livre :  Emil Fischer's ‘'From My Life''
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This book is a translation of Emil Fischer’s autobiography published in 1922 by Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, Germany. It is the first translation of this work into English, guiding the reader through the life of a man who was one of the greatest chemists of all...

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Parution : 2022-08-13
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Télécharger le livre :  Gregor Mendel - The Scientist
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The major purpose of this book is to present Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) in a real and interesting way based on the most recent historical research and analysis of authentic sources.The authors aim to show Mendel´s scientific thinking and inner feelings together...

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Parution : 2022-08-03
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Télécharger le livre :  The Flying Man
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"Of all the men who attacked the flying problem in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the most important. His greatness appeared in every phase of the problem. No one equaled him in power to draw new recruits to the cause; no one equaled him in fullness and...

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Parution : 2022-06-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Max von Laue
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This biography gives an insider view of 20th century German science in the making. The discovery by Max von Laue in 1912 of interference effects demonstrated the wave-like nature of X-rays and the atomic lattice structure of crystals.This major advance for research on...

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Parution : 2022-05-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Denis Burkitt
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This biography of Dr. Denis Parsons Burkitt, after whom the childhood cancer Burkitt's lymphoma was named, and who was a pioneer of the dietary fiber movement, paints a personal but holistic portrait of both the man and his life's work. Featuring excerpts from Dr....

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Parution : 2022-02-19
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Télécharger le livre :  Arthur E. Haas - The Hidden Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics
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The book highlights the personal and scientific struggles of Arthur Erich Haas (1884-1941), an Austrian Physicist from a wealthy Jewish middle-class family, whose remarkable accomplishments in a politically hostile but scientifically rewarding...

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Parution : 2021-09-23
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Télécharger le livre :  Reflections on a United Nations' Career
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This book is more than an autobiographical account of the career of a young graduate from Australia who spent his life working as a United Nations official. It is in fact, a critical, indispensable debriefing of a UN insider’s account as it follows the life of...

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Parution : 2021-09-15
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Télécharger le livre :  Going for Cold
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This short but revealing biography tells the story of Kurt Mendelssohn FRS, one of the founding figures in the field of cryogenics, from his beginnings in Berlin through his move to Oxford in the 1930s, and his groundbreaking work in low temperature and solid state...

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Parution : 2021-03-03
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Télécharger le livre :  Pioneer of Galactic Astronomy: A Biography of Jacobus C. Kapteyn
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This non-technical biography of Jacobus Cornelius Kapteyn (1851-1922) presents to the general reader the scientific life of the astronomer who pioneered the studies of the structure of the Milky Way Galaxy. In telling Kapteyn’s story the author weaves in astronomy...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Master of Galactic Astronomy: A Biography of Jan Hendrik Oort
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This accessible and entertaining biography chronicles the life and triumphs of astronomer Jan Hendrik Oort, who helped lay the foundations of modern astronomy in the 20th century. The book puts into context some of Oort's most significant achievements, including his...

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Parution : 2020-12-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Laura Bassi–The World's First Woman Professor in Natural Philosophy
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This book provides a fascinating insight into the life and scientific work of Laura Bassi, the first female member of the influential Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna and also the first woman to be appointed a university professor in physics, or universal...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-11-14
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