01582nam a22002417a 4500003000400000005001700004008004100021010001500062020003900077040002300116050002400139082001200163100002600175245008700201250001200288260004100300300002900341504006400370505082800434650002801262650002301290650002701313OSt20260429090557.0260429b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a2001046890  a0471402761q(cloth : alk . paper )  cJohn Wiley & Sons,  aQ 180.55b.H67 2001  a509b21  aHorvitz, Leslie Alan.  aEureka! :bscientific breakthroughs that changed the world /cLeslie Alan Horvitz.  a1st ed.  aNew York :bJohn Wiley & Sons,c2002  a246 p. :bill. ;c25 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index.  aIntroduction: A sudden flash of light -- A breath of immoral air: Joseph Priestley and the discovery of oxygen -- Epiphany at Clapham Road: Friedrich Kekulé and the discovery of the structure of carbon compounds -- A visionary from Siberia: Dmitry Mendeleyev and the invention of the periodic table -- The birth of a new science: Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution -- The logic of peas: Gregor Mendel and the laws of heredity -- A dream of the future: Philo Farnsworth and the invention of television -- An encounter on the bridge: William Rowan Hamilton and the discovery of quaternions -- Thinking with the body: Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity -- The secret of life: James Watson, Francis Crick, and the discovery of DNA -- The shapes of the world: Benoit Mandelbrot and the discovery of fractals.  aDiscoveries in science.  aResearchxHistory.  aScientistsvBiography.