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Instrumental community : Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology
In this volume, the author argues that this technology-centric view does not explain how these microscopes helped to launch nanotechnology - and fails to acknowledge the agency of the microscopists in making the STM and its variants critically important tools.
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Find your path :Unconventional lessons from 36 leading scientists and engineers
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- 9780262354837
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- 1 online resource (408 pages).
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Scientists under surveillance :the FBI files
Cold War-era FBI files on famous scientists, including Neil Armstrong, Isaac Asimov, Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Alfred Kinsey, and Timothy Leary. Armed with ignorance, misinformation, and unfounded suspicions, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover cast a suspicious eye on scientists in disciplines ranging from physics to sex research. If the Bureau surveilled writers because of what they believe…
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- 9780262353021
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Talking Nets: An Oral History of Neural Networks
A Bradford book."OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262267151
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- 1 online resource (xi, 434 pages) :illustrations
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Advice for a Young Investigator.
An anecdotal guide for the perplexed new investigator as well as a refreshing resource for the old pro, covering everything from valuable personality traits for an investigator to social factors conducive to scientific work.Santiago Ramon y Cajal was a mythic figure in science. Hailed as the father of modern anatomy and neurobiology, he was largely responsible for the modern conception of the b…
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- 9780262282062
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Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration
Cross-disciplinary collaboration increasingly characterizes today's science and engineering research. The problems and opportunities facing society do not come neatly sorted by discipline. Difficulties arise when researchers from disciplines as different as engineering and the humanities work together and find that they speak largely different languages. This book explores a new framework for f…
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- 1 online resource (viii, 302 pages) :illustrations.
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Research misconduct policy in biomedicine : beyond the bad-apple approach
Federal regulations that govern research misconduct in biomedicine have not been able to prevent an ongoing series of high-profile cases of fabricating, falsifying, or plagiarizing scientific research. In this book, Barbara Redman looks critically at current research misconduct policy and proposes a new approach that emphasizes institutional context and improved oversight.OCLC-licensed vendor b…
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- 9781461944669
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- 1 online resource (xx, 184 pages).
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Women and information technology :research on underrepresentation
Experts investigate the reasons for low female participation in computing and suggest strategies for moving toward parity through studies of middle and high school girls, female students and postsecondary computer science programs, and women in the information technology workforce.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Fascination with science :60 encounters with pioneering researchers of our time
Translation of: Faszination Wissenschaft : 60 Begegnungen mit wegweisenden Forschern unserer Zeit."A renowned German photographer combines portraits of and interviews with the world's leading scientists that look back at the personal experiences, successes and setbacks on their way to the very top"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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Power on!
A diverse group of teenage friends learn how computing can be personally and politically empowering and why all students need access to computer science education.This lively graphic novel follows a diverse group of teenage friends as they discover that computing can be fun, creative, and empowering.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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