Entropy and the Magic Flute
Harold Morowitz has long been regarded highly both as an eminent scientist and as an accomplished science writer. The essays in The Wine of Life, his first collection, were hailed by C.P. Snow as some of the wisest, wittiest and best informed that I have read, and Carl Sagan called them a delight to read. In later volumes such as Mayonnaise and the Origin of Life and The Thermodynamics of Pizza, he has established a reputation for a wide-ranging intellect, an ability to see unexpected connections and draw striking parallels, and a talent for communicating scientific ideas with optimism and wit. Kirkus Reviews praised Mayonnaise as wonderfully…
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- ISBN: 978-0-19-508199-2
- EAN: 9780195081992
- Produktnummer: 22404672
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1993
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B15.6 cm x D2.1 cm 490 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 490
Über den Autor
A regular contributor to Hospital Practice, Psychology Today, Discover, and The Sciences, and also currently a member of the National Advisory Research Resources Council of the national Institutes of Health and the Board of Biology of the National Research Council. In the past he has consulted for NASA and for the National Research Council's Committee on the use of Laboratory Animals and Biomedical and BehaviouralResearch.
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