Serendipity : accidental discoveries in science /
Roberts, Royston M.
Serendipity : accidental discoveries in science / Royston M. Roberts.. - New York : Wiley, c1989. - xvii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk. - Wiley science editions .
Bibliography: p. 248-262. - Includes indexes.
Archimedes-the first streaker -- Colombus discovers a new world -- A sick Indian discovers Quinine -- Sir Isaac Newton, the apple and the law of gravitation -- The electric battery and electromagnetism-from a frog's leg and a compass -- Vaccination-Edward Jenner, a milkmaid, and smallpox -- Discoveries of chemical elements -- Nitrous oxide and ether as anesthetics -- Wohler's synthesis of Urea-organic chemistry begins to make sense -- Daguerre and the invention of photography -- Rubber-natural and unnatural -- Pasteur-"left handed" and "right handed" molecules make a difference -- Synthetic dyes and pigments -- Kekule:molecular architecture from dreams -- Nobel:the man ,the discoveries and the prizes -- Celluloid and rayon-artificial ivory and silk -- Friedel and crafts-a laboratory accident spawns new industrial chemistry -- How to succeed in archaelogy without really trying -- Some astronomical serendipities -- Accidental medical discoveries -- X-rays, radioactivity and nuclear fission -- Substitute sugar:how sweet is it -and non fattening -- Safety glass -- Antibiotics:penicillin, sulfa drugs and magainins -- Nylon:cold drawing does the trick -- Polyethylene:thanks to leaky and dirty equipment -- Teflon:out of the atom bomb and into the frying pan -- Gasoline technology:flowery theories and gas to gasoline -- Drugs accidently found good in something else -- Drugs from sewage and dirt -- Brown and Wittig:boron and phosphorus in organic synthesis -- Polycarbonates:tough stuff -- Velcro and other giftsof serendipity to modern living -- DNA:the coil of life -- Conceptions, misconceptions, and accidents in organic synthesis -- Chemical crowns and crypts.
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Serendipity : accidental discoveries in science / Royston M. Roberts.. - New York : Wiley, c1989. - xvii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. + pbk. - Wiley science editions .
Bibliography: p. 248-262. - Includes indexes.
Archimedes-the first streaker -- Colombus discovers a new world -- A sick Indian discovers Quinine -- Sir Isaac Newton, the apple and the law of gravitation -- The electric battery and electromagnetism-from a frog's leg and a compass -- Vaccination-Edward Jenner, a milkmaid, and smallpox -- Discoveries of chemical elements -- Nitrous oxide and ether as anesthetics -- Wohler's synthesis of Urea-organic chemistry begins to make sense -- Daguerre and the invention of photography -- Rubber-natural and unnatural -- Pasteur-"left handed" and "right handed" molecules make a difference -- Synthetic dyes and pigments -- Kekule:molecular architecture from dreams -- Nobel:the man ,the discoveries and the prizes -- Celluloid and rayon-artificial ivory and silk -- Friedel and crafts-a laboratory accident spawns new industrial chemistry -- How to succeed in archaelogy without really trying -- Some astronomical serendipities -- Accidental medical discoveries -- X-rays, radioactivity and nuclear fission -- Substitute sugar:how sweet is it -and non fattening -- Safety glass -- Antibiotics:penicillin, sulfa drugs and magainins -- Nylon:cold drawing does the trick -- Polyethylene:thanks to leaky and dirty equipment -- Teflon:out of the atom bomb and into the frying pan -- Gasoline technology:flowery theories and gas to gasoline -- Drugs accidently found good in something else -- Drugs from sewage and dirt -- Brown and Wittig:boron and phosphorus in organic synthesis -- Polycarbonates:tough stuff -- Velcro and other giftsof serendipity to modern living -- DNA:the coil of life -- Conceptions, misconceptions, and accidents in organic synthesis -- Chemical crowns and crypts.
0471506583 0471602035
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Serendipity in science.
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