| Title:
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UNVEILING THE MICROCOSMOS
ESSAYS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FROM THE ROYAL INSTITUTION |
| By: |
Peter Day (Editor) |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£6.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198559372 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198559375 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
19 September, 1996 |
| Pages: |
182 |
| Description: |
What is the smallest thing we can see? These articles, based on "Evening Discourses at the Royal Institution", explain issues such as how electron waves can be harnessed to unveil the hitherto invisible microcosmos, and are aimed at those who may be unfamiliar with science. |
| Synopsis: |
What is the smallest thing we can see? The fundamental limit on the size of an object that can be visualized with a light microscope is typically about half a micrometre. In this book of articles based on recent Evening Discourses at the Royal Institution, Akira Tonomura explains how electron waves can be harnessed to unveil the hitherto invisible microcosmos. Elsewhere in this volume Lewis Wolpert writes on the unnatural nature of Science, Harold Kroto retells the events leading to the discovery of buckminsterfullerene, and Tony Benn discusses science and political power. These and other essays are authoritative and accessible summaries of current thinking in many areas of science and technology. |
| Illustrations: |
30 colour plates, 33 halftones, 43 line figures, bibliography |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |