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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| adam_text | 2690 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 BY CHARLES TANFORD DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS DURHAM AND LONDON 1989
CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ONE. INTRODUCTION 1. POURING OIL ON TROUBLED
WATERS 1 2. THE REVEREND MR. FARISH 2 3. LORDS AND LADIES AND EVEN A
PEDIATRICIAN 4 4. THE WORLD OUTSIDE 6 5. CONNECTING THREADS 9 TWO.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN 1. GOSPEL OF ST. BENJAMIN 12 2. THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
14 3. FIRST MISSION TO LONDON 20 4. TEN TEMPESTUOUS YEARS 24 THREE.
FRIENDS AND INFLUENCES 1. THE LONDON SCENE 29 2. THE CLUB OF HONEST
WHIGS 32 3. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES 33 FOUR. THE FRENCH CONNECTION 42
FIVE. PLINY THE ELDER 46 SIX. EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY SCIENCE 1. APOLOGIA 50
2. NEWTON S LEGACY 51 3. ULTIMATE PARTICLES 53 4. DISTINCTION BETWEEN
ATOMS AND MOLECULES 57 VI CONTENTS 5. HEAT, LIGHT AND ELECTRICITY 60 6.
SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS 61 SEVEN. FRANKLIN S EXPERIMENT: THE OBSERVATION
1. AUTHOR S COMMENTS 63 2. PHILOSOPHICAL LETTERS 65 3. FARISH FAILS A
LESSON 65 4. FRANKLIN S PROLOGUE 69 5. EXPERIMENT AT CLAPHAM 70 6.
SUBSEQUENT OBSERVATIONS 72 7. TRIAL AT SEA 75 EIGHT. HOW SMALL IS A
MOLECULE? THE CALCULATION FRANKLIN DID NOT MAKE 1. A LAYER ONE MOLECULE
THICK 78 2. ANOTHER PUZZLE? 81 3. NUMBERS TELL THE TALE 82 NINE. ONE
HUNDRED YEARS LATER: SCIENCE COMES OF AGE 1. HEART OF THE EMPIRE 85 2.
SCIENCE AS PROFESSION 89 3. MOLECULAR DIMENSIONS 93 4. AVOGADRO S NUMBER
96 5. NOTE ON THE BIRTH OF MODERN PHYSICS 99 6. STILLING WAVES AT SEA
100 TEN. LORD RAYLEIGH 1. AMATEURS IN SCIENCE 103 2. BIOGRAPHICAL
SKETCH. PHYSICS AS A PLEASURE 105 3. WHY THE SKY IS BLUE, AND / 0THER
PROFOUND MATTERS 111 4. OIL ON WATER ON A LABORATORY SCALE 114 5.
NOBLESSE OBLIGE 118 ELEVEN. METICULOUS MISS POCKELS 122 CONTENTS VII
TWELVE. COMRADES IN THE SEARCH: THE FLAVOR OF LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY
PHYSICS 128 THIRTEEN. BEN FRANKLIN WONDERS WHY (MOLECULAR
INTERPRETATION) 144 FOURTEEN. IN PRAISE OF WATER 1. WATER IS THE ORIGIN
OF ALL THINGS 149 2. ATOMS, MOLECULES, AND IONS 151 3. ATTRACTIONS AND
REPULSIONS 154 4. WHY WATER IS SPECIAL 156 FIFTEEN. IRVING LANGMUIR:
MOLECULAR ATTITUDES 1. AMERICA ON THE MOVE 158 2. GENERAL ELECTRIC 161
3. QUESTIONS OF PRIORITY 162 4. AWARD OF THE FRANKLIN MEDAL 164 5.
MOLECULES AT THE INTERFACE 166 SIXTEEN. BIOLOGY*CELLS AND MEMBRANES 1.
MISSED CONNECTIONS 174 2. CELLS ARE THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LIVING MATTER
176 3. MEMBRANES DEFINE A CELL 178 4. DYNAMIC BIOCHEMISTRY 180 5.
CHEMISTRY OF LIPIDS 181 6. WATER IS SURELY AN IMPORTANT BIO-MOLECULE?
183 7. CRUSADER FOR WATER 184 SEVENTEEN. ERNEST OVERTON: GENTLE GENIUS
1. PRESCIENT INTUITION 188 2. PERMEABILITY OF CELL MEMBRANES 190 3.
UPHILL TRANSPORT 192 4. MOLECULAR BASIS FOR ANESTHESIA 193 5. THE
FARISH SYNDROME 194 EIGHTEEN. GORTER AND GRENDEL: A FACTOR OF TWO 1.
PROGRESS POSTPONED 196 2. EVERT GORTER. A LIFE OF COMBAT 197 3. SOURCE
OF INSPIRATION 200 VIII CONTENTS 4. A TRULY CLASSIC PAPER 201 5.
PHILISTINE DOCTRINE 205 6. AUTOPSY. WHY DID IT DIE? 207 7. RESURRECTION
210 NINETEEN. EPILOGUE * THE BIOLOGICAL FRONTIER 212 BIBLIOGRAPHY 217
INDEX 223
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