Promoting the Planck Club: How Defiant Youth, Irreverent Researchers and Liberated Universities Can Foster Prosperity IndefinitelyPromoting the Planck Club presents rich mini histories of selected scientists whose work led to radical and transformational discoveries, their background, the prevailing scientific environment, and the conditions that allowed for their success. The text provides a broad audience of students, scientists, engineers, economists, and policymakers with ways to ensure that we take all steps to protect the flow of unpredictable scientific discoveries that are necessary for sustained levels of growth as well as ways to ensure that all steps are taken to protect the flow of unpredictable scientific discoveries. |
Contents
Accidents Coincidences and the Luck of the Draw | |
Science Technology and Economic Growth Can Their | |
Max Planck A Reluctant Revolutionary with a Hunger | |
The Golden Age of Physics | |
Oswald T Avery A Modest Diminutive Introverted | |
Charles Townes A Meticulously Careful Scientific | |
Peter Mitchell A HighMinded Creative and Courageous | |
Harry Kroto An Artistic and Adventurous Chemist with | |
John Mattick A Prominent Critic of Dogma and | |
Conclusions How We Can Foster Prosperity Indefinitely | |
Open Letter to Research Councils UK from | |
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