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Naturwissenschaftler reden von Gott

Herausgeber: Barbara Drossel
Mitwirkende: Jonathan Sleeman, Peter C. Hägele, Monika Schönhoff, Siegfried Scherer, Barbara Drossel

Buch, Broschiert, 04.08.2016

NMR – Mein Kompass in der Organischen und Medizinischen Chemie (Lives in Chemistry – Lebenswerke in der Chemie: ISSN 2747-8696)

Autor: Horst Kessler

Gebundene Ausgabe, 16.12.2023

Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature

Autor: Janine M Benyus

Taschenbuch, 17.09.2002

The Collector: David Douglas and the Natural History of the Northwest

Autor: Jack Nisbet

Taschenbuch, 03.08.2010

Last Night in the OR: A Transplant Surgeon's Odyssey

Autor: Bud Shaw

Taschenbuch, 15.09.2015

Tales from the Ant World

Autor: Edward O Wilson

Taschenbuch, 05.10.2021

The Arbornaut: A Life Discovering the Eighth Continent in the Trees Above Us

Autor: Meg Lowman

Taschenbuch, 04.08.2022

LERNEN WIE EINSTEIN: Geheimnisse und Techniken, um besser zu lernen, Kreativität zu entwickeln und das Genie in Ihnen zu entdecken (Genius Strategies, Band 1)

Autor: Robert Meyer

Taschenbuch, 16.07.2020

The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science

Andrea Wulf

Audible Hörbuch

Winner of the Costa Biography Award 2015. Winner of the L A Times Book Prize 2015 ( Science and Technology). Shortlisted for the Independent Book Week Award 2016.

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) is the great lost scientist: more things are named after him than anyone else. There are towns, rivers, mountain ranges, the ocean current that runs along the South American coast; there's a penguin, a giant squid - even the Mare Humboldtianum on the moon.

His colourful adventures read like something out of a Boy's Own story: Humboldt explored deep into the rainforest, climbed the world's highest volcanoes and inspired princes and presidents, scientists and poets alike. Napoleon was jealous of him; Simon Bolívar's revolution was fuelled by his ideas; Darwin set sail on the Beagle because of Humboldt; and Jules Verne's Captain Nemo owned all his many books. He simply was, as one contemporary put it, 'the greatest man since the Deluge'.

Homage to Gaia: The Life of an Independent Scientist

James Lovelock

Gebundene Ausgabe

James Lovelock is the British scientist who gave birth to the concept of Gaia-the idea that ". . . the Earth regulates its climate and composition. . . " that neither ". . . we, or any living thing, [can] evolve without changing the state of the Earth". But as we find in < I> Homage to Gaia: the Life of an Independent Scientist, there is much more to James Lovelock. His life has been more like that of the pioneer natural philosophers of the Renaissance who studied "science" before the word "scientist" was invented in the 19th century. As we discover in this fascinating autobiography, Lovelock learned the nuts and bolts of his science in a very old-fashioned way by what he calls "the long apprenticeship". On leaving school he had, like many bright but poor youths in Britain until the 1950s, to start work as an apprentice chemical analyst in London and study in the evenings at Birkbeck College. For any would-be scientist Lovelock's early career is an object lesson in application, persistence and inspiration. He managed to work his way into a remarkable variety of scientific research posts in chemistry, medicine and space science in both Britain and America. Along the way he invented the electron capture detector, which revolutionised the study of environmental chemistry and discovered that C F Cs are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere and damaging the ozone layer. And then there is Gaia, ". . . part of science. . . not an alternative to religion but a complement", according to Lovelock. Much of Lovelock's work has been carried out independently of universities, research institutes or business organisations, financed by the success of his inventions. His story of the struggle to make ends meet, to develop new ideas and to try to come to terms with what it means to be a responsible "child" of Earth, < I> Gaia is essential if at times uncomfortable reading for anyone interested in the interaction between science and the environment. Be prepared to have your preconceptions of Lovelock shaken up. -< I> Douglas Palmer