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Ben Franklin Stilled The Waves: An Informal History Of Pouring Oil On Water With Reflections On The Ups And Downs Of Scientific,New
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Benjamin Franklin Was The First To Report The Phenomenon Of Oil'S Power To Still Troubled Waters And To Speculate On Why It Happened. A Century Later Lord Rayleigh Performed An Identical Experiment. Irving Langmuir Did It With Minor Variations In 1917, And Won A Nobel Prize For It. Then Langmuir'S Work Was Followed By A Dutch Pediatrician'S In 1925. ^P Each Experimenter Saw A Little More In The Result Than His Predecessor Had Seen, And The Sciences Of Physics, Chemistry And Biology Have All Been Illuminated By The Work. ^P Charles Tanford Reflects On The Evolving Nature Of Science And Of Individual Scientists. Recounting Innovations In Each Trial, He Follows The Classic Experiment From Franklin'S Drawing Room To Our Presentday Institutionalized Scientific Establishments And Speculates On The Ensuing Changes In Our Approach To Scientific Inquiry.
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