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A brass microscope, glass slides, an open graph-paper notebook, a burette clamp and an ammonite fossil

Shelf · 14 titles · 7 in print

Science.

A scientific life is usually told as a straight line to a discovery. It rarely was one. These books restore the wrong turns, the disputes over credit, and the institutions that decided whose name went on the paper.

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  • Science14
Titles
14
In print
7 paperback
Total extent
3,011 pages
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Cover of Vacated, a biography of Robert Oppenheimer

Vacated

Robert Oppenheimer$3.99

Digital edition

Cover of Note A, a biography of Ada Lovelace

Note A

Ada Lovelace$3.99

Digital edition