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1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Contributors; Chapter One: A Background to Prematurity and Resistance to "Discovery"; Chapter Two: Prematurity in Scientific Discovery; Chapter Three: Prematurity, Nuclear Fission, and the Transuranium Actinide Elements; Chapter Four: Resistance to Change and New Ideas in Physics: A Personal Perspective; Chapter Five: The Timeliness of the Discoveries of the Three Modes of Gene Transfer in Bacteria; Chapter Six: Scotoma: Forgetting and Neglect in Science; Chapter Seven: Prematurity and Delay in the Prevention of Scurvy. |
Summary |
For centuries, observers have noted the many obstacles to intellectual change in science. In a much-discussed paper published in Scientific American in 1972, molecular biologist Gunther Stent proposed an explicit criterion for one kind of obstacle to scientific discovery. |
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Subject |
Stent, Gunther S. (Gunther Siegmund), 1924-2008.
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Stent, Gunther S. (Gunther Siegmund), 1924-2008. |
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Stent, Gunther S., 1924- Stent, Gunther Siegmund. |
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Discoveries in science -- Congresses.
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Discoveries in science. |
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Science -- Philosophy.
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Science -- Philosophy. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Congressen (vorm)
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Hook, Ernest B., 1936-
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Other Form: |
Print version: Prematurity in scientific discovery. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 0520231066 (DLC) 2001004245 (OCoLC)47364052 |
ISBN |
9780520927735 (electronic book) |
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0520927737 (electronic book) |
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0585441162 (electronic book) |
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9780585441160 (electronic book) |
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9780520231061 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520231066 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780520231078 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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0520231074 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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1597348309 |
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9781597348300 |
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0520231066 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0520231074 (paper ; alkaline paper) |
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1282356720 |
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9781282356726 |
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