Research Catalog

Title

The mystery of matter / edited by Louise B. Young.

Author

American Foundation for Continuing Education.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1965.

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Details

Additional Authors

Young, Louise B.

Description

xiii, 712 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subject

• Matter > Constitution
• Life (Biology)
• Science > Social aspects
• Organelle Biogenesis
• Science > Social aspects
• Matter > Constitution

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies.

Contents

Part 1. Can matter be measured? / the editor -- Part 2. Is matter infinitely divisible? -- [2.1] The atomic idea -- The atom is conceived / Guy Murchie -- The character of atoms / Lucretius -- [2.2] Early atomic theory -- Atoms and molecules / Selig Hecht -- The development of the chemist's atomic theory / James Conant -- A new system of chemical philosophy / John Dalton -- The atom as a homogeneous ball / Selig Hecht -- The periodic law of the chemical elements / Dmitri Mendeléeff -- The atom becomes complex / Selig Hecht -- [2.3] Two ways of looking at nature -- Continuity and discontinuity / Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld -- Continuity and discontinuity / Tobias Dantzig -- Part 3. Is matter substance or form? -- [3.1] Radioactivity -- Penetrating rays / Alfred Romer -- The discovery of radium / Marie Curie -- [3.2] The structure of the atom -- Rutherford's theory of the nuclear atom / Theodore A. Ashford -- [3.3] Wave or particle? -- Atomic structure and quantum theory / Victor Weisskopf -- [3.4] Substance or form? -- The importance of form / Erwin Schrödinger -- The roots of atomic science / Werner Heisenberg -- Physics and reality / Albert Einstein and Leopold Infeld -- Some problems of philosophy / James Jeans -- Two worlds are one / Eugene Rabinowitch -- Part 4. What is the secret of atomic energy? -- [4.1] The story of the development of atomic energy -- Development of atomic energy / Selig Hecht -- Letter to President Roosevelt / Albert Einstein -- The first self-sustaining chain reaction / Selig Hecht -- Selections from an eye-witness account of the first atomic pile -- The atom bomb / George Gamow -- The secret is out / Selig Hecht -- Alamogordo: selections of an interview with Brigadier General Thomas F. Farrell -- [4.2] Implications, social and political -- Selections from the Franck Report -- A poll of scientists at Chicago, July, 1945 / Arthur H. Compton and Farrington Daniels -- A difficult question / Arthur H. Compton -- Correspondence between the Japanese publication Kaizo and Albert Einstein -- Correspondence between Jules Isaac and Albert Einstein -- Secrecy and scientific progress / Eugene Rabinowitch -- Part 5. Is the universe asymmetric? -- [5.1] The concept of symmetry -- Symmetry / Hermann Weyl -- [5.2] Symmetry in nature -- Crystals, examples of symmetry in nature / Alan Holden and Phylis Singer -- [5.3] Asymmetry in nature -- Pasteur's experiments with organic crystals / René Dubos -- Explanation of optically active isomers / Isaac Asimov -- [5.4] Symmetry and asymmetry in modern physics -- Anti-matter and strange particles / Isaac Asimov -- The overthrow of parity / Philip Morrison -- Part 6. What is the origin of living matter? -- [6.1] Theories of the origin of life -- Genesis -- Theories of spontaneous generation of life / A.I. Oparin -- Selections from letters / Antony Van Leeuwenhoek -- Francisco Redi's experiments / James Conant -- Organic and inorganic substances / Isaac Asimov -- The controversy concerning spontaneous generation / James Conant -- The origin of life / A.I. Oparin -- The chemistry of life / Isaac Asimov -- Organic matter from space / Brian Mason -- [6.2] Can science fathom the secret of life? -- The creation of life / George Wald -- The secret of life / Loren Eiseley -- Part 7. Is living matter immortal? -- [7.1] Evolution and reproduction -- The science of life / H.G. Wells, J. Huxley, and G.P. Wells -- [7.2] Principles of heredity -- Units of living matter / Ruth Moore -- Experiments in plant hybridization / Gregor Mendel -- Units of change / Ruth Moore -- [7.3] Aspects of immortality, death, and reproduction -- Immortality at the lower levels of live / Edmund W. Sinnott -- Immortality of the stream of life / Henri Bergson -- Are life and death two aspects of the same process? / J.S. Haldane -- Is the power to replicate the one clear distinction between living and non-living matter? / Michael Ovenden -- Part 8. Does order arise from disorder? -- [8.1] Order from disorder -- The law of disorder / George Gamow -- Maxwell's little demon / Isaac Asimov -- The law / Robert M. Coates -- [8.2] Order from order -- What is life? / Erwin Schrödinger -- [8.3] Chance, causality, and free will -- The law of chance / Erwin Schrödinger -- The idea of chance / J.J. Bronowski -- Climates of opinion / Carl L. Becker -- The revolution in Western though / Huston Smith -- Part 9. What is life? -- [9.1] Definition of life -- What do we mean by life? / H.G. Wells, Julian Huxley, and G.P. Wells -- [9.2] How life began -- The wellsprings of life / Isaac Asimov -- Is it alive? / George W. Gray -- Passing on the information / Isaac Asimov -- How life began / Earl A. Evans, Jr. -- The effect of natural selection / Julian Huxley -- The thread of life / Loren Eiseley -- [9.3] Is the whole more than the sum of its parts? -- Lines in dispraise of dispraise / Ogden Nash -- The problem of problems / George Gaylord Simpson -- Biological goals / Edmund W. Sinnott -- What is life? / Michael Overden -- Life is a stage in the organization of matter / George W. Gray -- The principle of organization / Loren Eiseley -- Part 10. Will fallout affect the course of evolution? -- [10.1] Mutation and natural selection -- Radiation and human mutation / H.J. Muller -- Design emerges from blind waste / Garrett Hardin -- The cruelty of natural selection / Linus Pauling -- [10.2] The problem of fallout -- The scientists' petition to the United Nations / Linus Pauling -- The compelling need for nuclear tests / Edward Teller and Albert Latter -- The facts about fallout / Linus Pauling -- Posing the issue / Steven M. Spencer -- Decisionmaking in the nuclear age / Hans J. Morgenthau -- Part 11. Is science destroyer or creator? -- [11.1] Is science the forbidden fruit? -- The Garden of Eden (Genesis) -- The advancement of learning / Francis Bacon -- The proper study of mankind / Alexander Pope -- [11.2] The rejection of science -- Simplification / Joseph Wood Krutch -- The flame deluge / Walter M. Miller, Jr. -- [11.3] The schism between science and society -- Science, the destroyer or creator / J.J. Bronowski -- The false images of science / Gerald Holton -- Science and human welfare / American Association for the Advancement of Science -- Dehumanization of the scientist / René Dubos -- [11.4] Is knowledge a good in itself? -- The value of science / Henri Poincaré -- The search for truth / Garrett Hardin.

LCCN

65012462

OCLC

• ocm00173312
• 173312
• SCSB-472460

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library