This superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists--Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how claims are tested. He then travels into the minds of scientists as they are drawn into competing directions. Here Ziman exposes the path of discovery, which is strewn with complex human needs, governmental restrictions, the desire for profits, and the exercise of technical virtuosity.
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individual research plans, noetic domain, reputational market, internal sociology, individual research worker, scientific notables, undue persistence, lonely seeker, academic science, academic mode, academic ethos, research entities, little local difficulties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cambridge University Press, New York, Royal Society, Nobel Prize, Albert Einstein, Soviet Union, Andrei Sakharov, Cecil Powell, Andrei Dmitrievich, Professor Kuhn, The Force of Knowledge, Thomas Kuhn, House of Lords, Michael Polanyi, New Scientist, Physics Today, Robert Merton, Alfred Nobel, Anna Livanova, Clarendon Press, Ernest Rutherford, Gerald Holton, Kegan Paul, Personal Knowledge New!
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There are thousands of portraits in the scientific family album. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
individual research plans, noetic domain, reputational market, internal sociology, individual research worker, scientific notables, undue persistence, lonely seeker, academic science, academic mode, academic ethos, research entities, little local difficulties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Cambridge University Press, New York, Royal Society, Nobel Prize, Albert Einstein, Soviet Union, Andrei Sakharov, Cecil Powell, Andrei Dmitrievich, Professor Kuhn, The Force of Knowledge, Thomas Kuhn, House of Lords, Michael Polanyi, New Scientist, Physics Today, Robert Merton, Alfred Nobel, Anna Livanova, Clarendon Press, Ernest Rutherford, Gerald Holton, Kegan Paul, Personal Knowledge New!
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- Public Knowledge: An Essay Concerning the Social Dimension of Science by J. M. Ziman on 8 pages
- The Social Function of Science by J. D. Bernal on 4 pages
- The Scientific Community (Arcturus books ; AB130) by Warren O. Hagstrom on 4 pages
- The Force of Knowledge by John M. Ziman on page 263, page 305, and page 309
- Science and Politics: An Essay on the Scientific Situation in the Modern World by Jean-Jacques Salomon on page 263, page 309, and page 357
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- This Gifted Age (Masters of Modern Physics) by John C. Gibbons in Front Matter
- Technological Innovation as an Evolutionary Process by John Ziman in Back Matter
- Judging Science: Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts by Kenneth R. Foster in Back Matter
- Science Bought and Sold: Essays in the Economics of Science by Philip Mirowski on page 339
- Science in the Service of Human Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights) by Richard Pierre Claude in Back Matter
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