Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Useful information
- 1 The Father of Electricity
- 2 One giant leap for mankind
- 3 Medicine's marvellous rays
- 4 Things that glow in the dark
- 5 Parcels of light
- 6 Dr Einstein's fountain pen
- 7 The Big Bang, or how it all began
- 8 Molecular soccerballs
- 9 Jostling plates, volcanoes and earthquakes
- 10 Soda water, phlogiston and Lavoisier's oxygen
- 11 Of beer, vinegar, milk, silk and germs
- 12 Of milkmaids, chickens and mad dogs
- 13 Malaria's cunning seeds
- 14 Penicillin from pure pursuits
- 15 DNA, the alphabet of life
- 16 Cutting DNA with molecular scissors
- 17 DNA, the molecular detective
- 18 Magic bullets
- Further reading
- Index
1 - The Father of Electricity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Useful information
- 1 The Father of Electricity
- 2 One giant leap for mankind
- 3 Medicine's marvellous rays
- 4 Things that glow in the dark
- 5 Parcels of light
- 6 Dr Einstein's fountain pen
- 7 The Big Bang, or how it all began
- 8 Molecular soccerballs
- 9 Jostling plates, volcanoes and earthquakes
- 10 Soda water, phlogiston and Lavoisier's oxygen
- 11 Of beer, vinegar, milk, silk and germs
- 12 Of milkmaids, chickens and mad dogs
- 13 Malaria's cunning seeds
- 14 Penicillin from pure pursuits
- 15 DNA, the alphabet of life
- 16 Cutting DNA with molecular scissors
- 17 DNA, the molecular detective
- 18 Magic bullets
- Further reading
- Index
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- Remarkable Discoveries! , pp. 1 - 16Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1994