Eurekas and euphorias : the Oxford book of scientific anecdotes

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Eurekas and euphorias : the Oxford book of scientific anecdotes / Walter Gratzer.

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Physical Description: x, 301 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Eurekas and Euphorias : The Oxford Book of Scientific Anecdotes

Section	Section Description	Page Number
	Introduction	p. 1
1	The great stench	p. 9
2	Culture clash	p. 11
3	The reveries of Kekule	p. 13
4	Rontgen's rays	p. 14
5	Light on sweetness: the discovery of aspartame	p. 17
6	Otto Stern's sulphurous cigars	p. 18
7	Metchnikoff restored to life	p. 20
8	An ill wind	p. 22
9	Marie Curie and the Immortals	p. 23
10	'Every integer his personal friend': Hardy visits Ramanujan	p. 24
11	David Hilbert's eulogy	p. 26
12	Rabi meets his match	p. 27
13	The Bucklands explode a miracle	p. 29
14	Farmyard thermodynamics	p. 30
15	Newton ponders	p. 31
16	Rutherford finds a solution	p. 33
17	The vanishing blackboard	p. 34
18	Cats and dogmas	p. 36
19	But what use is it?	p. 38
20	Unlocking the chains	p. 38
21	Of life and death	p. 42
22	Mathematical peril	p. 43
23	Fortune favours the ham fist	p. 45
24	To discern a true vocation	p. 48
25	The Pauli principle	p. 49
26	The first eureka	p. 52
27	Lordly disdain	p. 54
28	A martyr to science	p. 55
29	The marble and the mop	p. 56
30	Pythagoras's theme	p. 58
31	New ways with barometers	p. 60
32	The professor remembers	p. 63
33	Dalton's daltonism	p. 64
34	The trick of the tick	p. 66
35	Comfort in adversity	p. 67
36	Winter in Paris: Becquerel and the discovery of radioactivity	p. 71
37	The unbreakable cypher	p. 73
38	Two hundred monks aleaping and the devil in the bottle	p. 75
39	The success of the operation and the death of the patient	p. 77
40	Pendant professor	p. 78
41	Feud	p. 80
42	The man of few words	p. 81
43	Mauled by the Bulldog	p. 85
44	Damping the canine rotor	p. 89
45	Nemesis in Nancy	p. 90
46	Mathematician's melodrama	p. 94
47	Ben Franklin stills the waves	p. 97
48	Fraternal fire	p. 98
49	The wages of sin	p. 99
50	Loving an enzyme	p. 101
51	The poltergeist next door	p. 102
52	The problem solver	p. 104
53	The Resonance Bridge	p. 106
54	A laboratory libation	p. 108
55	Slot machine yields jackpot	p. 109
56	Shooting down Venus	p. 111
57	None so blind	p. 112
58	Raising the dead	p. 117
59	Vibrios in Vienna	p. 118
60	Drowning the telephone	p. 119
61	Trouble at t'lab	p. 122
62	The child is father to the man	p. 125
63	Hooke's tease	p. 127
64	Know your adversary	p. 128
65	The divine spark comes by night	p. 129
66	Following by example	p. 132
67	Science for survival	p. 133
68	The hounding of J. J. Sylvester	p. 134
69	The quiet American	p. 136
70	Solving the insoluble	p. 138
71	A sceptic confounded	p. 139
72	Wrong experiment, right conclusion	p. 140
73	Old soldiers never die	p. 142
74	A case of night starvation	p. 143
75	Fortunate furtive encounter	p. 145
76	Eddington's disobedient conscience	p. 145
77	Smoking for the Fuhrer	p. 149
78	Polish and perish	p. 151
79	Baccy and quanta	p. 152
80	The country doctor, his captive, and the professor	p. 154
81	Whispers from the void	p. 155
82	The lying stones of Mount Eivelstadt	p. 158
83	The mind of a mathematician	p. 159
84	The old melon	p. 161
85	Strong medicine	p. 162
86	A Russian tragedy	p. 168
87	The way of the world	p. 171
88	Tug of war on the thread of life	p. 172
89	The trivial and profound	p. 175
90	Phlogiston consigned to flames	p. 178
91	The errant compass	p. 179
92	Liberation by fire	p. 180
93	How small is small?	p. 182
94	Seeing sparks	p. 183
95	A Victorian tragedy, a twentieth-century sequel	p. 185
96	A visit to the Fuhrer	p. 188
97	Butterfly in Beijing	p. 190
98	Cook knows best	p. 192
99	Chemistry in the kitchen: the discovery of nitrocellulose	p. 193
100	The living fossil	p. 194
101	The sound of physics	p. 195
102	Grand Guignol	p. 196
103	The mathematical wallpaper	p. 199
104	Out of the mouths of poets	p. 202
105	Venomous vermin	p. 203
106	A principle misapplied	p. 206
107	A message from space	p. 207
108	The emperor's chessboard	p. 210
109	A modest appraisal	p. 212
110	The little green men who weren't	p. 213
111	The virtues of squalor	p. 215
112	Hevesy's subterfuge	p. 220
113	Crystal clear	p. 222
114	Little brown dog	p. 224
115	Friends and enemies	p. 227
116	The maestro's gaffe	p. 229
117	Hybrid vigour	p. 232
118	Buffon's balls of fire	p. 233
119	Science in extremis and the phosphorescent toothpaste	p. 237
120	Their Lordships kick a football	p. 240
121	The power of incantations	p. 244
122	Hoax!	p. 245
123	Humphry Davy gives himself airs	p. 248
124	Truth stranger than fiction	p. 250
125	The mosquito bites back	p. 251
126	Some are born great	p. 253
127	Victorian vitality	p. 254
128	Charles Goodyear vulcanizes	p. 257
129	Pasteur wields the tweezers	p. 258
130	The limits of logic	p. 260
131	As in a dream	p. 261
132	Metal takes wing	p. 264
133	A mathematical death	p. 266
134	Shocking experiment	p. 266
135	Galton surpassed	p. 268
136	Beef and ale	p. 270
137	The wrath of fools	p. 273
138	Domestic horror show	p. 276
139	A ball on Mars	p. 276
140	Boyle on the boil	p. 277
141	The physicist as travelling salesman	p. 280
142	Monsieur LeBlanc's solicitude	p. 282
143	The emperor and the scientist	p. 283
144	The man of principle	p. 285
145	The stolen invention	p. 285
146	The Jesuits and the bomb	p. 288
147	Ferreting out a virus	p. 289
148	A man's world	p. 290
149	The shock of recognition	p. 293
150	Fruits of the sea	p. 295
151	A slice of pi	p. 297
152	The last of the true amateurs	p. 298
153	Dr Pincus's pill	p. 301
154	The frivolous philosophe	p. 302
155	Koch on cooking	p. 303
156	The heat of the light	p. 304
157	A world of science in a teacup	p. 306
158	A copper or two	p. 307
159	The savants and the chauvinists	p. 309
160	The case of the flaccid ears	p. 311
161	The good-natured philosopher	p. 313
162	A myth and its genesis	p. 315
163	'Where the hormones there moan I'	p. 317
164	The disagreeable man	p. 317
165	The crackle that made history	p. 319
166	The physicist's peregrinations	p. 321
167	From mania to miracle	p. 323
168	Madame la savante	p. 324
169	The gold standard	p. 327
170	Margin of error	p. 329
171	Pomposity and circumstance	p. 330
172	The use of vacations	p. 331
173	The lecturer's craft	p. 332
174	The purple cloud	p. 333
175	The fist in the fistula	p. 335
176	Tripping over an answer	p. 336
177	Throwing the hounds off the scent	p. 337
178	The body's bounty	p. 340
179	The flat-earther's revenge	p. 341
180	Potholes on the path to fame	p. 343
181	Humboldt's stratagem	p. 346
	Credits	p. 347
	Name index	p. 349
	Subject index	p. 355

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