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

Max F. Perutz

ISBN 10: 0879695242 / ISBN 13: 9780879695248

Editore: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pr, 1998

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Riassunto:

In this collection of essays, Nobel Prize-winning protein chemist Max Perutz writes about the pursuit of scientific knowledge, which he sees as an enterprise providing not just a few facts but cause for reflection and revelation, as is a painting or poem. This work includes detective stories, tales of conflict and battle, a woman's love affair with crystals, a man's gruesome fascination with poison gas, Nobel Laureates' geriatric illusions about cancer cures, an onslaught on social relativists, the anticlimactic homecoming of a war hero that led to a Nobel prize, phantom perils that threaten us, and real perils that have been conquered by silent heroes. Perutz seeks to convince us that science is a passionate enterprise and the pursuit of knowledge a sortie into the unknown. He combines potraits of 20th-century giants such as Pauling, Meitner, Medawar, Krebs and others, with glimpses of his own life: his flight from Vienna in the '30s, internment in Britain as an enemy alien in World War II, rescue from the sea after a U-boat attack, and more. His observations on abortion issues, nuclear fuel reprocessing and human rights reflect a lifelong concern for social justice and scientific integrity.

L'autore: Max Perutz, F.R.S., was Director of the Medical Research Council Laboratory for Molecular Biology from its foundation in 1962 until 1979, and remained a member of the scientific staff there until his death in February 2002. In addition to many other awards and honours, he received, with John Kendrew, the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1972 for the first solution of the structure of proteins.

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Titolo: I Wish I'd Made You Angry Earlier: Essays on...
Casa editrice: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Pr
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: Hardcover
Condizione: Very Good
Condizione sovraccoperta: No Jacket