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More Words of Science
- GenresScience
267 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1972
About the author
Isaac Asimov
4,370 books28.4k followersWorks of prolific Russian-American writer Isaac Asimov include popular explanations of scientific principles,
The Foundation Trilogy
(1951-1953), and other volumes of fiction.
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
Isaac Asimov, a professor of biochemistry, wrote as a highly successful author, best known for his books.
Asimov, professor, generally considered of all time, edited more than five hundred books and ninety thousand letters and postcards. He published in nine of the ten major categories of the Dewey decimal classification but lacked only an entry in the category of philosophy (100).
People widely considered Asimov, a master of the genre alongside Robert Anson Heinlein and Arthur Charles Clarke as the "big three" during his lifetime. He later tied Galactic Empire and the Robot into the same universe as his most famous series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those that Heinlein pioneered and Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson previously produced. He penned "Nightfall," voted in 1964 as the best short story of all time; many persons still honor this title. He also produced well mysteries, fantasy, and a great quantity of nonfiction. Asimov used Paul French, the pen name, for the Lucky Starr, series of juvenile novels.
Most books of Asimov in a historical way go as far back to a time with possible question or concept at its simplest stage. He often provides and mentions well nationalities, birth, and death dates for persons and etymologies and pronunciation guides for technical terms. Guide to Science, the tripartite set Understanding Physics, and Chronology of Science and Discovery exemplify these books.
Asimov, a long-time member, reluctantly served as vice president of Mensa international and described some members of that organization as "brain-proud and aggressive about their IQs." He took more pleasure as president of the humanist association. The asteroid 5020 Asimov, the magazine Asimov's Science Fiction, an elementary school in Brooklyn in New York, and two different awards honor his name.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_As...
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June 2, 2026
This book contains 250 pages, each page explains one scientific term, ordered alphabetically. He starts with ablation, acetylcholone and actinide and he ends with zynjanthropus, zone refining and ZPG.
Even in the days before Wikipedia that was a strange idea. Why these words, and how can one page be enough to explain a strange word? It is fun to read, but most of all, rather frustrating. Because reading a page I know perfectly well that I will forget whatever it is I am learning after a couple of minutes. So what is ablation again? I have no idea? (I could explain the last three words, since I just finished the book. ZPG, in case you are curious stands for zero population growth.)
And I doubt I will use the book in future as a reference book. Okay, what I hope I will not forget, are the fact that Pierre Curie had a brother (called Paul-Jacques) with whom he found a method to produce high-pitched sound waves and that barbituric acids where named after the girl friend Barbara of the discoverer Emil Fischer (but maybe it was named after Saint Barbara).
One thing I found strange is that Asimov neglects to mention Jocelyn Bell in the article on pulsars. All the credit goes to Antony Hewish.
Even in the days before Wikipedia that was a strange idea. Why these words, and how can one page be enough to explain a strange word? It is fun to read, but most of all, rather frustrating. Because reading a page I know perfectly well that I will forget whatever it is I am learning after a couple of minutes. So what is ablation again? I have no idea? (I could explain the last three words, since I just finished the book. ZPG, in case you are curious stands for zero population growth.)
And I doubt I will use the book in future as a reference book. Okay, what I hope I will not forget, are the fact that Pierre Curie had a brother (called Paul-Jacques) with whom he found a method to produce high-pitched sound waves and that barbituric acids where named after the girl friend Barbara of the discoverer Emil Fischer (but maybe it was named after Saint Barbara).
One thing I found strange is that Asimov neglects to mention Jocelyn Bell in the article on pulsars. All the credit goes to Antony Hewish.
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March 15, 2013I read a page a day to my captive math students.
August 21, 2009
The Good Doctor shares the origins of more words used in science, in his inimitably enjoyable and informative style.
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