The Disappearing Spoon

Informationen zum Autor Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers as a child and now he is a writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Air & Space/Smithsonian and New Scientist. In 2009 he was a runner-up for the National Association of Science Writers' Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for best science writer under the age of thirty. He currently writes for Science. His first book, The Disappearing Spoon, was a New York Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Royal Society's Winton Prize for science writing. Klappentext Sam Kean spent years collecting mercury from broken thermometers as a child and now he is a writer in Washington DC. His work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Mental Floss, Slate, Air & Space/Smithsonian and New Scientist . In 2009 he was a runner-up for the National Association of Science Writers' Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for best science writer under the age of thirty. He currently writes for Science. This is his first book. Zusammenfassung The fascinating tales in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, gold and every single element on the table as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, conflict, the arts, medicine and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Sam Kean, Kean Sam
• Edition: BLACK SWAN
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 28.07.2011
• EAN: 9780552777506
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77750-6
• Pages: 400
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 25 mm
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; SCIENCE / History, chemistry, History of Science, Scientific standards, measurement etc, Scientific Standards