Cambridge scientific minds / 
edited by Peter Harman and Simon Mitton. 
 - Cambridge ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2002. 
 - viii, 343 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> William Gilbert /  William Harvey /  Isaac Newton: creator of the Cambridge scientific tradition /  William Whewell: a Cambridge historian and philosopher of science /  Adam Sedgwick: a confident mind in turmoil /  Charles Babbage: science and reform /  Charles Darwin /  Stokes and Kelvin, Cambridge and Glasgow, light and heat /  James Clerk Maxwell /  Duo from Trinity: A.N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell on the foundations of mathematics, 1895-1925 /  Thomson, Rutherford and atomic physics at the Cavendish -- /  Hopkins and biochemistry /  Charles Sherrington, E.D. Adrian, and Henry Dale: the Cambridge Physiological Laboratory and the physiology of the nervous system /  Hardy and Littlewood /  Arthur Stanley Eddington /  Paul Dirac: a quantum genius /  Alan Turing /  Francis Crick and James Watson /  Mary Cartwright /  Joseph Needham /  Molecular biology in Cambridge /  Discovery of pulsars-prelude and aftermath /  Stephen W. Hawking /  Stephen Pumfrey --  Andrew Cunningham --  Rupert Hall --  Richard Yeo --  David Oldroyd --  Anthony Hyman --  Peter J. Bowler --  David B. Wilson --  Simon Schaffer --  Ivor Grattan-Guinness --  Brian Pippard --  Harmke Kamminga --  E.M. Tansey --  Robin J. Wilson --  Malcolm Lonair --  Helge Kragh --  Andrew Hodges --  Robert Olby --  Tom Korner --  Gregory Blue --  M.F. Perutz --  Anthony Hewish --  Simon Mitton. 
<br/><br/> "Cambridge Scientific Minds provides a portrait of some of the most eminent scientists associated with the University over the past 400 years, including accounts of the work of three of the greatest figures in the entire history of science, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and James Clerk Maxwell." "The chronological balance reflects the increasing importance of science in the recent history of the University. The book comprises personal memoirs and historical essays, including contributions by leading Cambridge scientists. Cambridge Scientific Minds will be of interest not only to graduates of the University, science students, and historians of science, but to anyone wishing to gain an insight into some of the greatest scientific minds in history."--Jacket. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521781000 9780521781008 0521786126 (pbk.) 9780521786126 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2001025664 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. No.: </label>GBA2-12040 GBA1V7054  bnb 
<br/><br/><label>Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: </label>101219323  DNLM 011017677  Uk 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Scientists--England--Cambridge--Biography<br/>Science--History.--England--Cambridge<br/>Científicos--Inglaterra--Cambridge--Biografía<br/>Ciencia--Inglaterra--Cambridge--Historia<br/>Universidad de Cambridge--Historia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>Q 141  / C128 2002 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>509.22426