Ben Franklin stilled the waves : an informal history of pouring oil on water with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general /

Main Author: Tanford, Charles, 1921-2009.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004.
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245 1 0 |a Ben Franklin stilled the waves :  |b an informal history of pouring oil on water with reflections on the ups and downs of scientific life in general /  |c Charles Tanford. 
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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-260) and index. 
505 0 |a Contents; One: Introduction; Two: Benjamin Franklin; Three: Friends and Influences; Four: The French Connection; Five: Pliny the Elder; Six: Eighteenth-Century Science; Seven: Franklin's Experiment: The Observation; Eight: How Small Is a Molecule? The Calculation Franklin Did Not Make; Nine: One Hundred Years Later. Science Comes of Age; Ten: Lord Rayleigh; Eleven: Meticulous Miss Pockels; Twelve: Comrades in the Search. The Flavor of Late Nineteenth-Century Physics; Thirteen: Ben Franklin Wonders Why (Molecular Interpretation); Fourteen: In Praise of Water. 
505 8 |a Fifteen: Irving Langmuir: Molecular AttitudesSixteen: Biology-Cells and Membranes; Seventeen: Ernest Overton-Gentle Genius; Eighteen: Gorter and Grendel: A Factor of Two; Nineteen: Epilogue-The Biological Frontier; Bibliography; Index. 
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