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Spice in Science
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Author: K. Krishna Murty
Language: English
ISBN: 81-223-0900-3
Pages: 141
Did you know that Thomas Edison was penniless and almost starving when he left for New York? Or how once Charlie Chaplin confused Einstein? Or how German physicist,Gustav Kirchoff, presented his banker with `gold from sun`?
Spice in Science is an unusual book replete with interesting incidents, funny situations, memorable events and little known facts from the lives of scientists, researchers, inventors and mathematicians.
Herein you will find no pungent formulae or esoteric ideas, simply a colourful embroidery of humorous stories and amusing anecdotes laced with unforgettable incidents from the fascinating lives of these great geniuses.
This book does not contain the serious science from cloistered laboratories. Instead, it transmits the crackles of laughter that cracked up these labs sometimes in wonder, sometimes in mirth and sometimes in mysticism.
From...
CV Raman to Srinivas Ramanujan, Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein, Michael Faraday to Thomas Edison and Marie Curie to Guglielmo Marconi...
this book has funnies and anecdotes on one and all. So, whether you are interested in science or only dig pure fun, Spice in Science is just the right book for you.
About the author:
A Mechanical Engineer by profession, the author has a few short stories to his credit in Telugu. A passionate hobbyist in electronics for over 30 years, many of his projects and articles on electronics have been published in Electronics for You.
Selections from a large collection of his science anecdotes were published in The Indian Express in their weekly Science magazine in the column Wonderful Bites. Others were published in the national science magazine, Science Reporter in humour columns, Fun with Scientists and Lighter Side etc.
The author`s enlightening talks on scientific spirit and temperament and the spice in science have been broadcast over All India Radio, Visakhapatnam. He is presently Deputy Manager in Coromandel Fertilisers, Visakhapatnam.
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