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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (viii, 343 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	University of Cambridge -- History. University of Cambridge University of Cambridge. Scientists -- England -- Cambridge -- Biography. Science -- England -- Cambridge -- History. Science. Science -- history. Science -- history. Science. Scientists. England. England -- Cambridge. Electronic books. Biography. Biographies. History. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11230603

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Other authors / contributors:	Harman, P. M. (Peter Michael), 1943- Mitton, Simon, 1946-
ISBN:	9781316103784 1316103781 9781107590137 1107590132 0521781000 9780521781008 0521786126 9780521786126
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the work of three of the greatest figures in the entire history of science, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and James Clerk Maxwell." "The chronological balance reflects the increasing importance of science in the recent history of the University. The book comprises personal memoirs and historical essays, including contributions by leading Cambridge scientists. Cambridge Scientific Minds will be of interest not only to graduates of the University, science students, and historians of science, but to anyone wishing to gain an insight into some of the greatest scientific minds in history."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Cambridge scientific minds 0521781000

Table of Contents:

William Gilbert / Stephen Pumfrey
William Harvey / Andrew Cunningham
Isaac Newton: creator of the Cambridge scientific tradition / Rupert Hall
William Whewell: a Cambridge historian and philosopher of science / Richard Yeo
Adam Sedgwick: a confident mind in turmoil / David Oldroyd
Charles Babbage: science and reform / Anthony Hyman
Charles Darwin / Peter J. Bowler
Stokes and Kelvin, Cambridge and Glasgow, light and heat / David B. Wilson
James Clerk Maxwell / Simon Schaffer
Duo from Trinity: A.N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell on the foundations of mathematics, 1895-1925 / Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Thomson, Rutherford and atomic physics at the Cavendish
/ Brian Pippard
Hopkins and biochemistry / Harmke Kamminga
Charles Sherrington, E.D. Adrian, and Henry Dale: the Cambridge Physiological Laboratory and the physiology of the nervous system / E.M. Tansey
Hardy and Littlewood / Robin J. Wilson
Arthur Stanley Eddington / Malcolm Lonair
Paul Dirac: a quantum genius / Helge Kragh
Alan Turing / Andrew Hodges
Francis Crick and James Watson / Robert Olby
Mary Cartwright / Tom Korner
Joseph Needham / Gregory Blue
Molecular biology in Cambridge / M.F. Perutz
Discovery of pulsars-prelude and aftermath / Anthony Hewish
Stephen W. Hawking / Simon Mitton.

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