Litmus - Short Stories from Modern Science

"Eureka Moments covered in the collection: Jeremiah Horrocks & the transit of Venus, 1639; Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table, 1869; Joseph Swan's electric light-bulb, 1880; Einstein's special relativity revelation, 1905; Hermann Minkowski's spacetime, 1908; Henrietta Leavitt's period-luminosity relation, 1912; Pavlov's flood and the transmarginal inhibition, 1924; Lise Meitner & the discovery of fission, 1939; Alan Turing's morphogenesis, 1952; Denis Noble and mathematically modeling the heart, 1960; Green florescent protein, 1961; Hamilton's Law and inclusive fitness, 1964; The cosmic microwave background, 1965; HM, Brenda Milner & the hippocampus, 1971; Kary Mullis' polymerase chain reaction, 1983; Giacomo Rizzolatti's mirror neurons, 2003; The discovery and treatment of AIDS, 1981-present."--Publisher website.

About the author

Ra Page is the editor of Bracket, The City Life Book of Manchester Short Stories, Comma, Hyphen, Leeds Stories, and Parenthesis, and is a former editor of Newcastle Stories magazine.

Product details

• Authors: Kate Clanchy, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Stella Duffy
• Assisted by: Ra Page (Editor)
• Publisher: Comma Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9781905583331
• ISBN: 978-1-905583-33-1
• No. of pages: 298
• Dimensions: 197 mm x 132 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 360 g
• Series: Science-Into-Fiction; Science-Into-Fiction
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general)