Leaps in the Dark: The Making of Scientific Reputations

by John Waller and John Waller

In Leaps in the Dark, John Waller presents another collection of revelations from the world of science. He considers experiments in which the scientists' awareness was not perhaps as keen as they might have claimed in retrospect; he investigates the jealousy and opposition that scientific ideas can provoke; he celebrates the scientists who were wrong, but for very good reasons; and he demonstrates how national interest can affect scientists and their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192804847
• ISBN13: 9780192804846
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 8.8"