C. H. Waddington (1905–1975)
Autor de Tools for Thought: How to Understand and Apply the Latest Scientific Techniques of Problem Solving
Sobre El Autor
C. H. Waddington (1905-1975) was a world-class biologist, paleontologist, geneticist, embryologist, and philosopher. He is credited with helping to create the field of systems biology. He is the author of numerous books including New Patterns in Genetics and Development, Principles of Development mostrar más and Differentiation, and The Ethical Animal. mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Portrait photograph of Conrad Hal Waddington, 1934 By Source (WP:NFCC#4), Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=50250292
Obras de C. H. Waddington
Tools for Thought: How to Understand and Apply the Latest Scientific Techniques of Problem Solving (1977) 55 copias
Behind Appearance: A Study of the Relations between Painting and the Natural Sciences in This Century (1969) 15 copias
O.R. in World War 2: operational research against the U-boat, (Histories of science series) (1973) 5 copias
Biology for the Modern World 4 copias
The nature of life 3 copias
Mitä elämä on 2 copias
Organisers and genes 1 copia
Biologia d'avui 1 copia
Het leven 1 copia
El animal ético 1 copia
Vad är liv? 1 copia
Evolutie en Ethiek 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The New Scientist, 1 January 1959 — Contribuidor — 1 copia
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Waddington, Conrad Hal
- Otros nombres
- Waddington, Prof. C. H.
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1905-11-08
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1975-09-26
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Evesham, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- Wayanad District, Kerala, India
Middletown, Connecticut, USA
Edinburgh, Scotland - Educación
- Clifton College
Cambridge University (Sidney Sussex College) - Ocupaciones
- biologist
palaeontologist
geneticist
embryologist
philosopher - Relaciones
- Humphrey, Caroline (daughter)
McDuff, Dusa (daughter) - Organizaciones
- Edinburgh University
Royal Air Force
International Union of Biological Sciences (president) - Premios y honores
- CBE (1958)
Royal Society (fellow)
Miembros
Reseñas
También Puede Gustarte
Autores relacionados
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 46
- También por
- 5
- Miembros
- 286
- Popularidad
- #81,618
- Valoración
- 3.8
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 62
- Idiomas
- 3
Not very much science is included in this book, it is more of an assessment of the indirect influences of science and scientists, so much of it might be classed as sociology. The author takes a fairly heavily left-wing view of things, which I found to be the only irritating thing about this book, but this is understandable due to the time in which this book was written. I didn't find the essays to be as stimulating as those of somewhat comparable writers like Koestler, but there were some interesting opinions to do with art, which would never have occurred to me, though I think he was correct about them.
This book might be interesting for the scientist, as it describes the world from the view of a scientist, but it might also be interesting for a non-scientist who is interested in learning how various aspects of the world are affected by science.… (más)