Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water with Reflections on the Ups and Downs of Scientific Life in General
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Benjamin Franklin was the first to report the phenomenon of oil's power to still troubled waters and to speculate on why it happened. A century later Lord Rayleigh performed an identical experiment. Irving Langmuir did it with minor variations in 1917, and won a Nobel Prize for it. Then Langmuir's work was followed by a Dutch pediatrician's in 1925. p Each experimenter saw a little more in the result than his predecessor had seen, and the sciences...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0192804944
ISBN13:9780192804945
Release Date:June 2004
Publisher:OUP Oxford
Length:269 Pages
Weight:0.09 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"
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