Remarkable Discoveries!

This book takes the reader on an exhilarating tour through scientific discoveries that have benefited humanity.

Frank Ashall (Author)

9780521589536, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 27 June 1996

292 pages, 35 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.43 kg

'… helps interested readers prepare for the new miracles of science and leaves them also eager to learn more about them'. The Chemical Intelligencer

Remarkable Discoveries shows how scientists have made great discoveries that have pushed back the frontiers of knowledge and have changed the way we look at the world. Frank Ashall, scientist and writer, takes us on a magical mystery tour of eighteen major scientific discoveries. Electricity, X-rays, DNA fingerprinting and the Big Bang are but a few of the achievements on which the author writes. We delve into the world of the researcher and experience the excitement as each discovery is unfolded. Can we thank chance or just intelligence and hard work for the scientists' success? The personalities, the trials, the triumphs are all here. Remarkable Discoveries takes the reader on an exhilarating tour through some of the major scientific discoveries that have benefited humanity.

Preface
Useful information
1. The father of electricity
2. One giant leap for mankind
3. Medicine's marvellous rays
4. Things that glow in the dark
5. Parcels of light
6. Dr Einstein's fountain pen
7. The Big Bang, or how it all began
8. Molecular soccerballs
9. Jostling plates, earthquakes and volcanoes
10. Soda pop, phlogiston and Lavoisier's oxygen
11. Of beer, vinegar, milk, silk and germs
12. Of milkmaids, chickens and mad dogs
13. Malaria's cunning seeds
14. Penicillin from pure pursuits
15. DNA, the alphabet of life
16. Cutting DNA with molecular scissors
17. DNA, the molecular detective
18. Magic bullets
Further Reading
Index.

Subject Areas: Popular science [PDZ], History of science [PDX]