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xiii, 369 pages ; 22 cm |
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A series of radio talks, presenting aspects of modern science, given as intermission programs during New York Philharmonic-Symphony broadcasts. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Chapter 1: Science and complexity / Warren Weaver -- Chapter 2: The science of the earth -- The face of our continent / Eliot Blackwelder -- The science of the atmosphere / Francis W. Reichelderfer -- Oceanography / Columbus O'Donnell Iselin -- Forecasting earthquakes / James Bernard Macelwane -- Minerals in relation to war and peace / C.K. Leith -- Chapter 3: The science of the sky -- The exploration of space / Edwin P. Hubble -- The 200-inch camera / Ira Sprague Bowen -- The utility of meteors / Harlow Shapley -- Are the planets habitable? / Henry Norris Russell -- Chapter 4: The science of new materials and improved processes -- Lightweight metals / Zay Jeffries -- Today's glass / George V. McCauley -- Bouncing molecules / Willis A. Gibbons -- The story of 100-octane gas / Robert E. Wilson -- Cows, movies, and color photography / C.E.K. Mees -- Chapter 5: New instrumental techniques -- new chemicals -- The story of the electron microscope / James Hillier -- Fingerprints in medicine / Cornelius P. Rhoads -- The spectroscope -- a master key to new material / George R. Harrison -- DDT / Milton Charles Winternitz -- The story of Streptomycin / Selman A. Waksman -- Chapter 6: Atoms and molecules -- Within the atom / Hans Albrecht Bethe -- The atomic nucleus / Isador I. Rabi -- A view of the molecular world / John G. Kirkwood -- Molecular architecture and medical progress / Linus Pauling -- Isotopes and atomic research / Harold Clayton Urey -- The atomic age / J. Robert Oppenheimer. |
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Chapter 7: Physics and mathematics -- Effects of high pressure / Percy W. Bridgman -- Polarized light / Edwin H. Land -- Science and standards / Edward U. Condon -- Physics and art / Herbert E. Ives -- Mathematics and the laws of nature / Hermann Weyl -- Chapter 8: Chemistry and living things -- The Golden age of biochemistry / Robert R. Williams and Roger J. Williams -- Protein chemistry and medicine / Vincent du Vigneaud -- Blood and blood derivatives / Edwin Joseph Cohn -- Some acids which are necessary for life / William Cumming Rose -- The quick and the dead / John Howard Northrop -- At the twilight zone of life / Wendell M. Stanley -- Viruses -- master parasites / George Packer Berry -- The time factor in chemistry / Hugh Stott Taylor and Henry Eyring -- Chapter 9: Plants and animals -- Ambassador to the penguins / Robert Cushman Murphy -- Chimpanzees as servants of science / Robert M. Yerkes -- Plant roots and human problems / Philip R. White -- Bacteria -- friends or foes / Edwin Broun Fred -- Fungi -- friends or foes / Elvin Charles Stakman -- Hybrid corn / Lewis J. Stadler -- Living light / Edmund Newton Harvey -- Plants hold the basic patents / Edmund W. Sinnott -- Chapter 10: Fundamental Biology -- The science of heredity / T.S. Painter -- Genes, vitamins, and nutrition / George W. Beadle -- Living cells in action / Carl Caskey Speidel -- Growth / William Jacob Robbins -- The structural basis of life / Francis O. Schmitt -- Light on the blood capillaries / George W. Corner -- Chapter 11: The science of ourselves -- The human eye / Selig Hecht -- How much can we see? / Brian O'Brien -- The science of hearing / Harvey Fletcher -- The muscle machinery / Wallace Osgood Fenn -- Our internal environment / James L. Gamble -- The science of the individual / Earnest A. Hooton. |
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Chapter 12: Science and health -- Agents of infectious disease / Ernest William Goodpasture -- Epidemics / Stanhope Bayne-Jones -- Resistance to disease / Michael Heidelberger -- Anemia / George Richards Minot -- Medical benefits from atomic energy / James Franck -- Atomic energy and medicine / Stafford L. Warren -- Chapter 13: The natural and the social sciences -- The new geography / Isaiah Bowman -- The changing world population / Frank w. Notestein -- Our northern neighbor, China / George B. Cressey -- Energy and the development of civilization / Leslie A. White -- Chapter 14: Science and the war -- Science at the front / Karl Taylor Compton -- Aviation medicine / Detlev W. Bronk -- Microwaves / Lee Alvin DuBridge -- Direct lift aircraft / Igor Sikorsky -- Medical research during the war / Alfred Newton Richards -- Progress in aviation / Jerome C. Hunsaker -- Chapter 15: The long-term values -- Science and our nation's future / Arthur H. Compton -- Unforeseeable results of research / Irving Langmuir -- The role of chemical research / Roger Adams -- Science and history / Henry E. Sigerist -- A layman looks at science / Raymond B. Fosdick -- Bibliography. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-369). |
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Science.
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Radio addresses, debates, etc.
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Radio addresses, debates, etc. (OCoLC)fst01087167
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Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
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Radio addresses, debates, etc.
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| Added Author |
Weaver, Warren, 1894-1978, editor.
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