- Publisher: Michael O'Mara
- Year: 2017
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224pp
- Illustrated: Yes
- Dimensions: 197x128mm
- Condition: New
- Weight: 0.2kg
- ISBN: 9781782437802
- Product code: 538378
The Accidental Scientist
The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery
Graeme Donald New Paperback Illustrated
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Exploring the stories behind well-known discoveries and products such as the telephone, DNA fingerprinting and post-it notes, Graeme Donald shows how important chance and unintended consequences have been in scientific progression, whether Hedy Lamarr’s military invention in the 1940s that contributed to the mobile phone, or the events that led Darwin to revise his assumptions about the natural world.
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Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about?
Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance. The Accidental Scientist explores the role of chance and error in scientific, medical and commercial innovation, outlining exactly how some of the most well-known products, gadgets and useful gizmos came to be.
Encompassing everything from DNA profiling to fingerprinting and TNT to the telephone, this book explores many of the discoveries that we are all so familiar with today, yet have the most interesting origins because of the story behind them.
Not all discoveries require brilliance, and as The Accidental Scientist demonstrates, sometimes a special ingredient is needed: luck.
Surprisingly it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance. The Accidental Scientist explores the role of chance and error in scientific, medical and commercial innovation, outlining exactly how some of the most well-known products, gadgets and useful gizmos came to be.
Encompassing everything from DNA profiling to fingerprinting and TNT to the telephone, this book explores many of the discoveries that we are all so familiar with today, yet have the most interesting origins because of the story behind them.
Not all discoveries require brilliance, and as The Accidental Scientist demonstrates, sometimes a special ingredient is needed: luck.
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Exploring the stories behind well-known discoveries and products such as the telephone, DNA fingerprinting and post-it notes, Graeme Donald shows how important chance and unintended consequences have been in scientific progression, whether Hedy Lamarr’s military invention in the 1940s that contributed to the mobile phone, or the events that led Darwin to revise his assumptions about the natural world.
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