Biografier: videnskab, teknologi og medicin

In the summer of 1964, a reclusive young professor at the University of Edinburgh wrote two scientific papers which have come to change our understanding of the most fundamental building blocks of matter and the nature of the universe. Peter Higgs posited the existence an almost infinitely tiny particle - today known as the Higgs boson - which is the key to understanding why particles have mass, and but for which atoms and molecules could not exist.For nearly 50 years afterwards, some of the largest projects in experimental physics sought to demonstrate the physical existence of the boson which Higgs had proposed. Sensationally, confirmation came in July 2012 at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. The following year Higgs was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics. One of the least-known giants of science, he is the only person in history to have had a single particle named for them.This revelatory book is 'not so much a biography of the man but of the boson named after him'. It brilliantly traces the course of much of twentieth-century physics from the inception of quantum field theory to the completion of the 'standard model' of particles and forces, and the pivotal role of Higgs's idea in this evolution. It also investigates the contested history of Higgs's responsibility for the breakthrough when there were others close by, and explains why the boson is named for him alone. Competition between institutions and states, Close shows, then played as much of a role in creating Higgs's fame as his work itself. Drawing on conversations with Higgs over a decade (a figure generally as elusive as his particle) this is a superb study of a scientist and his era - and of how scientific knowledge advances.

The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem."Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.

Gareth Steel wants you to understand vets in a way you never could have before.How it feels to watch a healed dog bound into their owner's arms. The joy of breathing life into the fluid-filled lungs of a newborn calf after a difficult labour. The satisfaction of rescuing a distressed sheep from the high-tide line.What it's like to work 100-hour weeks for less than the minimum wage. How it can scar your soul to euthanize a beloved puppy with its grieving family beside you. The pressure of having to know such a diverse range of medicine, that one hour you can be protecting yourself from a dangerously distressed horse and the next you can be performing delicate surgery on a tiny mouse. How all these pressures have built up to the extent that vets have four times the national suicide rate, and why.Gareth Steel has been a vet for nearly twenty years and has worked all over the UK, across both rural and city practices, dealing with all manner of household pets and farm animals. This is his fascinating raw account of just how involved the job is and the toll the extreme emotions that come with it can take, but it also a heart-warming and often humorous story of the desperate lengths we go to for the love of animals.

Stephen Hawking var et enestående menneske. På én gang en ikonisk skikkelse i vores populærkultur, skelsættende forfatter og formidler af videnskabeligt stof til den almene læser, en dreven spøgefugl – og sidst, men ikke mindst en helt afgørende forsker, der bidrog med grundlæggende indsigter til vores forståelse af, hvordan den verden og det univers, som har skabt os, er dannet og fungerer.Fysikeren og forfatteren Leonard Mlodinow mødte første gang Stephen Hawking, da de skrev deres første bog sammen. Leonard og Stephen blev venner – og Mlodinow har været personligt og professionelt tæt på både Hawking, menneskene omkring ham og hans videnskabelige resultater. I ‘Stephen Hawking’ beskriver Leonard Mlodinow i seks kapitler, hvorfor Stephen Hawking var så stor og vigtig en videnskabsmand – og forklarer det, så vi alle kan være med. Det bliver en rejse, hvor vi bevæger os med Hawking ind i det mærkværdige og de vilde sorte huller, ser ham bevise, at tiden måske slet ikke findes og følger ham i hans arbejde med teorien om, at der findes mange verdener og parallelle universer. Og hvor vi samtidig møder ham som menneske. Medrivende, bevægende og storslået. Et indblik i et rigt sind og en stor ånds univers.

Der er så meget lærdom og erfaring at hente hos de generationer, som vi står på skuldrene af. I GAMMELKLOG fortæller 15 danskere over 70 om de valg, der har været med til at forme deres liv. Hvad har betydet noget for dem? Hvordan har de håndteret udfordringer? Hvad ville de have gjort anderledes? Hvordan ser de på samtiden? Hver især deler de også et leveråd, som har været afgørende for dem.Medvirkende: Bertel Haarder, Sonja Oppenhagen, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, Ditlev Tamm, Poul Nesgaard, Marianne Jelved, Christian Busch, Pia Tafdrup, Knud Foldschack, Lisbet Dahl, Susanne Larsen, Mette Fugl, Ida Nicolaisen, Flemming Enevold, Ole Hartling.STINE BUJE (f. 1982) er prisvindende forfatter til en række bøger med livet og døden i centrum. Hun er også debattør, foredragsholder og podcastvært. Hun er uddannet cand.comm. fra Roskilde Universitet og medlem af repræsentantskabet i Landsforeningen Liv&Død.

Sygdomme, undslipper ingen, og på mange måder former de vores liv. I Syge historier fortæller læge og forfatter Anders Fomsgaard om diverse sygdomme og sygdomshistorier, der har været en del af hans liv både privat og professionelt. Fælles for alle historierne er, at de er fortalt med humor, så man paradoksalt nok kan hygge sig med disse skrækfascinerende emner. Sygdomshistorier er en vigtig del af den måde, lægen erhverver sig indsigt i patientens lidelse og når frem til en diagnose, dertil er sygehistorier en del af vores livsfortælling. Og som Anders Fomsgaard skriver, er der ikke en sygdom, der er så dårlig, at den ikke kan blive til en god historie. Bogen kommer langt omkring – fra familietraumer, kighoste, bylder, galdesten, covid, cancer, ALS, aids til psykisk sygdom og meget mere. Nogle gange går det godt, det gør det ikke altid. Bliv klogere, måske lidt skræmt og under alle omstændigheder godt underholdt.

“Du kan hvis du vil er en imponerende fortælling om, hvad det kræver at blive mønsterbryder: et vist talent, en tryg opvækst og ikke mindst flid. Under vejs i denne personlige beretning får læseren også indblik i et stykke Danmarkshistorie, fortalt med glæde, entusiasme og en let pen.Denne vidunderlige bog er også en hyldest til livet!"- Professor Bente Klarlund

Andet og sidste bind af Peter Borbergs store biografi om Piet Hein. De modne år 1957-1996 er den periode af Piet Heins liv, hvor han slår igennem internationalt med opfindelsen af superellipsen, og hvor han rydder forsiden af Life Magazine, plejer privat omgang med folk som Thor Heyerdahl og Charles Chaplin, samtidig med at han konstant arbejder med nye idéer inden for design. Det er også den periode af sit liv, hvor Piet Hein både oplever store personlige tragedier som først og fremmest sin kones selvmord, men også ser sine børn vokse op, alt sammen i et hæsblæsende tempo lige til den dag, hvor kræfterne begynder at slippe op.Piet Hein. En biografi er et smukt illustreret værk i to bind om en af Danmarks største og internationalt mest anerkendte kulturpersonligheder gennem tiden – digteren, tegneren, opfinderen og designeren Piet Hein (1905-1996). Piet Hein opnåede i sin levetid en popularitet, som er uden sidestykke i nyere dansk kulturhistorie. Hans ’Gruk’ er i bogform solgt i mere end halvanden million eksemplarer og oversat til mere end 20 sprog. Piet Hein er en af de mest citerede danske digtere nogensinde – formentlig dén mest citerede. Dertil kommer 3.100 registrerede og katalogiserede idéer, hvoraf kun en brøkdel har set dagens lys, og hvor superellipsen og superægget for længst har manifesteret sig i toppen af dansk design. PETER BORBERG (født 1972) er mag.art. i nordisk sprog og litteratur og journalist. Han har udgivet flere kulturhistoriske og dokumentariske bøger, bl.a. Storm P. En biografi (2017), der blev særdeles godt modtaget i pressen og af danske anmeldere, og for hvilken forfatteren modtog Storm P. Prisen 2018. I 2023 udgav han første bind i den mægtige biografi om Piet Hein.

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A doctor's firsthand account of the devastating impacts of gun violence-and how we can end this epidemic.

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Based on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal papers and scientific archive, Jonathan Watts has written a definitive and revelatory biography of a fascinating, sometimes contradictory man.James Lovelock is best known as the father of Gaia Theory, the idea that life on Earth is a self-sustaining system in which organisms interact with their environments to maintain a habitable ecosystem.Lovelock's life was a chronicle of twentieth-century science, and somehow he seemed to have a hand in much of it. During the Second World War he worked at the National Medical Research Institute, where his life-long interest in chemical tracing began. In the 1960s he worked at NASA. He worked for MI5 and MI6 during the Cold War. He was a science advisor to the oil giant Shell, who he warned as early as 1966 that fossil fuels were causing serious harm to the environment. He invented the technology that found the hole in the Ozone layer. And all of this shaped Gaia Theory - a theory that could not have been developed without the collaboration of two important women in his life. Drawing together the many influences which shaped his life and thinking, The Many Lives of James Lovelock is a unique biography of one of the most fascinating scientists of the modern age.

In medical school when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was diagnosed with the disease shortly before assuming the Presidency, Salk was given an impetus to conduct studies on polio. His progress in combating the virus was hindered by the politics of medicine and by a rival researcher determined to discredit his proposed solution. But Salk's perseverance made history-and for more than fifty years his vaccine has saved countless lives, bringing humanity close to eradicating polio throughout the world. Splendid Solution chronicles Dr. Salk's race against time-and a growing epidemic that reached 57,000 reported cases in the summer of 1952-to achieve an unparalleled medical breakthrough that made him a cultural hero and icon for a whole generation.

"As a seasonal farmer in upstate New York and Vermont-living hand-to-mouth, but in love with the land and its creatures-Ellyn Gaydos understands the delicate balance between loss and gain. Choosing such work instead of moving to the city with her long-distance boyfriend, Gaydos recognizes her role in cycles bigger than herself. Yearning to be a mother, she recognizes, too, how new life is mirrored in everything that surrounds her: livestock, full moons, endless acres of green that seem to blossom overnight. But there's tragedy on the farms as well: fields gone barren, opioid addiction, and animals meeting their end too soon. While small farms struggle to survive in the face of industrial operations, low wages, and loneliness, Gaydos takes us into a violent and gorgeous world where pigs are turned into star-bright symbols of hope, and beauty surfaces in the furrows, the sow, and the slaughter"--

From the hosts of the hit podcast Gritty Nurses, stories of the challenges, heartbreak and humour of life on the front line One of the enduring lessons of the pandemic has been the pivotal role that nursing plays in health care?vital work that isn't widely understood or, sadly, appreciated. Sara Fung and Amie Archibald-Varley started the wildly popular Gritty Nurses podcast to give voice to nurses all over the world, including more than 400,000 nurses in Canada. The authors have quickly become sought-after speakers and advocates for nurses and are called on regularly by the media to talk about a wide range of issues around the profession. In their first book, they take you to the front line of nursing to show the compassion, selflessness and dedication of professionals who not only give it all for their patients, but get up and do it over and over again.

This profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature's best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on Earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature ? taking advantage of evolution's 3.8 billion years of R&D since the first bacteria. Biomimics study nature's best ideas: photosynthesis, brain power, and shells ? and adapt them for human use. They are revolutionising how we invent, compute, heal ourselves, harness energy, repair the environment, and feed the world. Science writer and lecturer Janine Benyus names and explains this phenomenon. She takes us into the lab and out in the field with cutting-edge researchers as they stir vats of proteins to unleash their computing power; analyse how electrons zipping around a leaf cell convert sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they're sick; study the hardy prairie as a model for low-maintenance agriculture; and more.

Journey into Summer, first published in 1960, is the third part in naturalist Edwin Way Teale's popular series of four books known as The American Seasons. Following from North With the Spring (1951), the story of a 17,000-mile journey, and Autumn Across America (1956), a 20,000-mile journey from Cape Cod to California, Journey Into Summer takes the reader from northern New England along the shores of the Great Lakes, south through the corn belt, and west to the Rocky Mountains, for a total of 19,000 miles of nature exploration during a typical American summer.Author Edwin Way Teale (1899-1980) was an American naturalist, photographer, and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. Teale's writings, due to his keen sense of observation, provided a valuable record of environmental conditions across North America. His most famous book series, The American Seasons, documented over 75,000 miles of automobile travel across North America.

Thrown for a loop by stage 4 lymphoma and a secondary brain tumor, a cancer patient recounts how he landed on his feet with a positive attitude and an offbeat sense of humor. He's put together a mixed bag of suggested activities, attitudes, and nitty-gritty hospital tips to help you get through chemo.

Thrown for a loop by stage 4 lymphoma and a secondary brain tumor, a cancer patient recounts how he landed on his feet with a positive attitude and an offbeat sense of humor. He's put together a mixed bag of suggested activities, attitudes, and nitty-gritty hospital tips to help you get through chemo.

"Anthony Fauci is arguably the most famous--and most revered-- doctor in the world today. His role guiding America sanely and calmly through COVID ... earned him the trust of millions during one of the most terrifying periods in modern American history, but this was only the most recent of the global epidemics in which Dr. Fauci played a major role. His crucial role in researching HIV and bringing AIDS into sympathetic public view and his leadership in navigating the Ebola, SARS, West Nile, and anthrax crises, make him truly an American hero. His memoir reaches back to his boyhood in Brooklyn, New York, and carries through decades of caring for critically ill patients, navigating the whirlpools of Washington politics, and behind-the-scenes advising and negotiating with seven presidents on key issues from global AIDS relief to infectious disease preparedness at home"--

A "poignant" (Boston Globe) family memoir that gives new meaning to hindsight, insight, and forgivenessHeather Sellers is face-blind—that is, she has prosopagnosia, a rare neurological condition that describes the inability to recognize faces. Growing up, unaware of the reason for her perpetual confusion and anxiety, she took what cues she could from speech, hairstyle, and gait. The truth was revealed two decades later when Heather took the man she would marry home to meet her parents and discovered the astonishing truth about her family, herself, and living with mental illness. In this uplifting memoir, Sellers illuminates a deeper truth: that even in the most chaotic and heartbreaking of families, love may be seen and felt.

""The Theory of the Modern Scientific Game of Whist"" is a book written by William Pole in 1883 that delves into the intricacies of the popular card game of Whist. The book is divided into three parts, with the first part covering the history and rules of the game, while the second part focuses on the theory of the game, including the principles of play, strategy, and tactics. The third part of the book provides detailed examples of actual games played by experts, with explanations of the reasoning behind each move. Pole's book was highly influential in the development of modern Whist strategy and is still considered a classic in the field. It is a must-read for serious Whist players and enthusiasts who wish to improve their skills and understanding of the game.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

""Record of Scientific Progress for the Year 1891"" is a book written by Robert Grimshaw and published in 1892. The book is a comprehensive account of the most important scientific discoveries and improvements made during the year 1891. It covers a wide range of scientific fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy, and geology. The book provides a detailed analysis of the latest research, experiments, and inventions in each field, and discusses their potential impact on society. It also includes illustrations and diagrams to help readers understand the scientific concepts discussed in the book. Overall, ""Record of Scientific Progress for the Year 1891"" is a valuable resource for anyone interested in the history of science and technology in the late 19th century.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.