Science
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Tumbas : Frits Zernike
Famous Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate Frits Zernike lies buried in graveyard Zorgvlied in Amstelveen near Amsterdam. He is buried together with his sister Elisabeth who was a writer and a poet. In the nineties the tombstone was removed and a new one was ‘inaugurated’ recently. If you understand Dutch you can watch a short…
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London Science Museum
Whenever I visit a city I have a look if there are any interesting science museums. In London we planned to go to the Natural History museum but during on trip in the underground we saw an advertisement for the Science Museum and the temporary exhibition of ZimingZhong, mainly British clockworks given to the Chinese…
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J. Robert Oppenheimer. A Life, Abraham Pais (ISBN 9780195327120, Oxford University Press)
With the Oppenheimer movie coming out I decided to read a biography first. I didn’t have the one from Kai Bird on which the movie is based (has been rectified in the mean time) but I did have 3 other books on Oppenheimer patiently lying in the library waiting to be read. After googling a…
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Oppenheimer
‘God knows I’m not the simplest person, but compared to Oppenheimer, I’m very, very simple.‘― Isidor Rabi
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Speculation
‘There’s speculation, and then there’s more speculation, and then there’s cosmology.‘― Michio Kaku
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Of God and Men
‘Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men.‘― Paul Ramsey
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Science and Method
‘The scientist does not study nature because it is useful. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and het takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful.‘― Henry Poincare, Science & Method, 1908
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10 women who changed science and the world, Catherine Whitlock & Rhodri Evans (ISBN 9781472137432, Robinson)
Another book I picked up in bookstore Dominicanen in July 2022. It is a cheap paperback edition and I have to say I have read better written books of this type of collection of short biographies. Somehow I found the biographies were too much a collection of facts without a soul that inspires. But there…
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