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Brilliant blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2013Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover editionDescription: 341 s. illISBN:
  • 9781439192368
  • 1439192367
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 500 23
LOC classification:
  • Q172.5.E77
Other classification:
  • U:k
Online resources: Summary: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--
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Book Högskolan Väst Övre plan / Upper floor 500 Livio Available 6004300061802
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"--

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