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The Whens and Wheres of a Scientific Life de John R. Helliwell

The Whens and Wheres of a Scientific Life: Global Science Education

Autor John R. Helliwell
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 aug 2024
Big questions and issues arise about the role of the scientific life in our society and in our world. These have to do with trusting science at all, or with the wider roles of the scientist. The Whens and Wheres of a Scientific Life serves as an epilogue to author John R. Helliwell’s scientific life trilogy of books on the Hows (i.e. skills), the Whys and the Whats of a scientific life. When and where questions play a big role in major science facility decisions. When and where also play a big role in controlling a pandemic like the coronavirus COVID-19. The consequences of such work and the role science plays in society are discussed in this book.
Key Features:
  • Discusses when and where we can make new and better things happen and make new discoveries. Explains whens and wheres as examples in basic science and explaining these to the public
  • User friendly and concise, this text provides a wide range of examples of science and discovery
  • The author has diverse experience in career development, teaching and research
  • The importance of open data to the reproducibility of science are described
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780367497309
ISBN-10: 0367497301
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 10
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: CRC Press
Colecția CRC Press
Seria Global Science Education

Locul publicării:Boca Raton, United States

Public țintă

Academic, Postgraduate, and Professional

Cuprins

Part 1 Instrumentation; The ninety degrees beryllium window; Trim the shielding; Part 2 Education and training; A joyful tutorial group; The lecture; The hopeless postgraduate studentPart 3 Conferencing; The lecture; Parallel conference sessions; The lecture chairman; Asking a question and making a comment; Part 4 Research; Alpha unfunded; The referee….. So you want to see the data; The Editor; The Critique; Part 5Administration; The Head of Department; A pay raise; Equality of opportunity, Yes; No conflict of interest; How, Why, What, no admittance; A successful nomination but; Part 6 More joys of science; Fresh ideas; New methods; New results; New applications; Appendices

Notă biografică

John R Helliwell, DSc (Physics, University of York), DPhil (Molecular Biophysics, Oxford University) is Emeritus Professor of Chemistry at The University of Manchester, where he served as Professor of Structural Chemistry from 1989 to 2012. Academic teaching from 1979 till 1988 was at the Universities of Keele and York in the physics departments there. He is a researcher in the fields of crystallography, biophysics, structural biology, structural chemistry and data science. He was also based at the Synchrotron Radiation Source at the UK’s Daresbury Laboratory, in various periods of appointment between 1979 to 2008, including in 2002 as Director of Synchrotron Radiation Science. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, the Royal Society of Chemistry, the Royal Society of Biology, and the American Crystallographic Association, an Honorary Member of the British Crystallographic Association and of the British Biophysical Society. He is a Corresponding member of the Royal Academy of Sciences & Arts of Barcelona, Spain and Honorary Member of the National Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia. His awards include the European Crystallographic Association Eighth Max Perutz Prize 2015, the American Crystallographic Association Patterson Award 2014, and the ‘Professor K Banerjee Endowment Lecture Silver Medal’ of the Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS) 2001.  He published over 200 scientific research papers and several books, e.g. Macromolecular Crystallography with Synchrotron Radiation with  Cambridge University Press (1992), published in paperback in 2005 and Macromolecular Crystallization and Crystal Perfection with N E Chayen and E H Snell), Oxford University Press - International Union of Crystallography Monographs on Crystallography (2010). He has published several Scientific Life, popular science, books in recent years, which are with CRC Press Taylor and Francis.

Descriere

This book is an epilogue to a scientific life trilogy of books on the Hows (i.e. skills) the Whys and the Whats of a scientific life. Starting with what is science, then on to what is physics, what is chemistry and what is biology the epilogue provides an insight into everyday situations in terms of types of obstacles faced.