White Knight, Red Heat - The Many Lives of Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

Informationen zum Autor John Gribbin is the author of many best-selling books, including In Search of Schrödinger's Cat. Mary Gribbin is a teacher and science writer, and previous winner of the TES Junior Information Book Award. John and Mary are both Visiting Fellows at the University of Sussex. Klappentext "President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said that "Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Count Rumford are the greatest minds that America has produced," and indeed, Rumford was a peer of theirs, and arguably contributed more to the scientific canon, and yet is nowhere near as well known. White Knight, Red Heat tells the story of this notable figure in book form for the first time in over twenty years"--

Product details

• Authors: John Gribbin, John Gribbin Gribbin, Mary Gribbin, Gribbin John, Gribbin Mary
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781633888678
• ISBN: 978-1-63388-867-8
• No. of pages: 222
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); SCIENCE / Physics / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology, Physics, Biography: science, technology & medicine, Biography: science, technology and medicine