Cranks, quarks, and the cosmos : writings on science /
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
©1993.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The scientific profile
- How can we be sure that Albert Einstein was not a crank?
- Ernst Mach and the quarks
- Niels Bohr's times
- Feet of clay
- Three degrees above zero
- Cosmology
- A portrait of Alan Turing
- I am a camera
- Einstein when young
- The merely personal
- The chemistry of Primo Levi
- A child's garden of science
- Having fun with Tom Lehrer
- A woman's place
- Who was Christy Mathewson?
- Science education for the nonscientist
- Epilogue: Some things I did not write.
