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MODERN MASTERS OF SCIENCE Volume 51 No. 3 (Autumn 1984) Arien Mack, Editor |
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The importance of twentieth-century science is unquestioned, yet very few of us outside of the scientific community have any clear idea of why. Few of us understand what the significant discoveries were or why they mattered. This issue was conceived as an attempt to address this problem. My intention in planning the issue was to make clear to educated laymen how the work of some of the celebrated masters of modern science fundamentally changed our understanding of the world in which we all live. All the authors were asked to describe as simply as possible what the most important discoveries were of the figures about whom they were writing, and how these discoveries influenced our cosmology and sociocultural environment. If this issue succeeds in making its readers even a little bit more literate in the domain of modern science, it will have accomplished its goal.
I would like to thank Professor Robert Cohen of Boston University and Professor Gerald Holton of Harvard University for the generous advice they gave me when I was planning this issue.
Arien Mack,
Editor
Table of Contents
| VICTOR WEISSKOPF |
Niels, Bohr, the Quantum, and the World |
| DONALD FLEMING |
Walter B. Cannon and Homeostasis |
| WILLIAM HAYES |
Max Delbruck and the Birth of Molecular
Biology |
| BERNARD FELD |
Leo Szilard, Scientist for All Seasons |
| JUDITH R. GOODSTEIN |
Atoms, Molecules, and Linus Pauling |
| GARLAND E. ALLEN |
Thomas Hunt Morgan: Materialism and Experimentalism
in the Development of Modern Genetics |
| MOTT T. GREENE |
Alfred Wegener |
| ELOF AXEL CARLSON |
H. J. Muller: The Role of the
Scientist in Creating and Applying Knowledge |
| RALPH JEWELL |
The Meteorological Judgment of Vilhelm Bjerknes |
| ERNST PETER FISCHER |
We Are All Aspects of One Single Being:
An Introduction to Erwin Schrodinger |
Notes on Contributors
(at time of publication)
Victor Weisskopf is Institute Professor Emeritus of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Theoretical Nuclear Physics, with John M. Blatt (1952) and Knowledge and Wonder: The Natural World as Man Knows It (2nd ed., 1979).
Donald Fleming is Jonathan Trumbull Professor of History at Harvard University. He was co-editor of The Intellectual Migration: Europe and America, 1930-1960 (1969) and author of William H. Welch and the Rise of Modern Medicine (1954).
William Hayes Emeritus Professor of Genetics at Australian National University, is currently Visiting Fellow in the Botany Department there. He wrote The Genetics of Bacteria and Their Viruses (2nd ed., 1968).
Bernard Feld is Professor of Physics and Co-Director of the Program for Science and Technology in International Security at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent book is A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1979).
Judith R. Goodstein Institute Archivist at the California Institute of Technology, is working on a history of Caltech.
Garland E. Allen is Professor of Biology at Washington University in St. Louis. His most recent book is Thomas Hunt Morgan: The Man and His Science (1978).
Mott T. Greene is a MacArthur Fellow and Visiting Professor of History at the University of Washington. His most recent book is Geneology in the Nineteenth Century (1982).
Elof Axel Carlson is Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His most recent book is Genes, Radiation, and Society: The Life and Work of H. J. Muller (1981).
Ralph Jewell is Universitetslektor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, Norway.
Ernst Peter Fischer is Senior Research Fellow and teaches in the Faculty of Biology at the University of Constance, Federal Republic of Germany.
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