History of Science - Page 11

Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass

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Intimate History of Evolution: The Story of the Huxley Family

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Insulin: A Hundred–Year History

In 1922, an unlikely team of researchers in Toronto made one of the most important medical breakthro...

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Money and Medicine: The Evolution of National Health Expenditures

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Distrust: Big Data, Data-Torturing, and the Assault on Science

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A History of Mathematical Impossibility

Many of the most famous results in mathematics are impossibility theorems stating that something can...

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Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History

Plagues upon the Earth is a monumental history of humans and their germs. Weaving together a grand n...

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Spark: The Life of Electricity and the Electricity of Life

When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lig...

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The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On

The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn’t until the nineteenth century that irrational numbe...

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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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The New Biology: A Battle between Mechanism and Organicism

In this accessible analysis, a philosopher and a science educator look at biological theory and soci...

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The Secret of Life: Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, Francis Crick, and the Discovery of DNA's Double He

A definitive history of the race to unravel DNA’s structure by one of our most prominent medical his...

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Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Godel

The first major biography written for a general audience of the logician and mathematician whose Inc...

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In Pursuit of Zeta-3: The World's Most Mysterious Unsolved Math Problem

For centuries, mathematicians the world over have tried, and failed, to solve the zeta-3 problem. Ma...

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Concorde: The Thrilling Account of History’s Most Extraordinary Airliner

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