The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers by Alan Lightman

The Discoveries: Great Breakthroughs in 20th-Century Science, Including the Original Papers

Alan Lightman

594 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative slow-paced

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In this captivating and lucid book, novelist and science writer Alan Lightman chronicles twenty-four great discoveries of twentieth-century science--everything from the theory of relativity to mapping the structure of DNA.These discoveries radical...

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