Brilliant Blunders : From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists that Changed our Understanding of Life and the Universe Mario Livio.

By:

Livio, Mario

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York: Simon & Schuster , 2014Description: 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:

9781439192375(Paperback)

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DDC classification:

500 L764B 23

LOC classification:

Q172.5.E77 L58 2013

Other classification:

SCI000000 | SCI034000 | BIO015000

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Contents:

Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for big bang -- The same throughout eternity? -- The "biggest blunder" -- Out of empty space.

Summary: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Central Library, IISER Bhopal General Section	500 L764B (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		7178

Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.

"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--

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