Brilliant Blunders: From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the...
- ISBN-10
- 1439192367
- ISBN-13
- 9781439192368
- Series
- Brilliant Blunders
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 341
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-05-14
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Mario Livio
Description
Draws on the careers of five renowned scientists including Charles Darwin, William Thomson, Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein to reveal the important roles of their mistakes in advancing science, from Pauling's error in his model of DNA molecule structure to Hoyle's dismissal of the "Big Bang" theory.
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