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More editionsA Very Decided Preference: Life with Peter Medawar by Jean Medawar, Oxford, pp 256, £15 The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists by Peter Medawar, edited by David Pyke, Oxford, pp 291, £15 Bernard Dixon ...
BMJ: British Medical Journal
More editionsObituaries Lady Jean Medawar A family planning pioneer jean Medawar was the wife of Sir Peter Medawar, the distinguished UK transplant immunologist and Nobel laureate. She spent her life supporting her husband's career and working ...
Dialogs: reading and writing in the disciplines
Jeffrey CarrollReprinted by permission. Peter and Jean Medawar, "Biological Inheritance, Nucleic Acids, the Genetic Code." Excerpt from The Life Science: Current Ideas of Biology by Peter and Jean Medawar. Copyright © 1977 by Peter and Jean Medawar ...
Advice To A Young Scientist
P. B. MedawarTo those interested in a life in science, Sir Peter Medawar, Nobel laureate, deflates the myths of invincibility, superiority, and genius; instead, he demonstrates it is common sense and an inquiring mind that are essential to the scientist ...
Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by ...
Jean MedawarIn this revelatory book, Jean Medawar and David Pyke tell countless gripping individual stories of emigration, rescue, and escape, including those of Albert Einstein, Fritz Haber, Leo Szilard, and many others.
Environmental solutions
Nicholas PoleParts of this article appeared in the quarterly 'Family Planning' and some were specially written for the Pelican paperback 'Family Planning' edited by Lady Medawar and Dr. David Pyke. The whole was edited for this book by Jean Medawar.
The Threat and the Glory: Reflections on Science and Scientists
Peter Brian MedawarReflections on Science and Scientists Peter Brian Medawar David Pyke. The Threat and the Glory Reflections on Science and Scientists Peter Medawar Edited by David Pyke Foreword by Lewis Thomas 175 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ...
New Statesman Society
More editionsJean Medawar's book is a homage rather than a biography. She describes her life with her husband and their struggle against the effects of several strokes that increasingly handicapped the last 20 years of his life. At the end she ...
Biology and Human Affairs
More editionsThe present edition has been revised throughout and much new material incorporated. Third edition Illustrated 25s. net Introduction to General Embryology A. M. Translated by JEAN MEDAWAR 4 ... Prof. Dalcq's book is much more than an ...
Aristotle to Zoos: A Philosophical Dictionary of Biology
Peter Brian MedawarBrief articles discuss sociobiology, eugenics, aging, diseases, paleontology, and various concepts in biology The Medawars have ranged over the whole of the subject of the biological sciences, and have combined within one work an enormous ...
The Kaleidoscope of Science: The Israel Colloquium: Studies ...
PreviewFor valuable comments and criticism onthese and other occasionsI am especially indebted to David Bloor, Donald T.Campbell, GeraldL. Geison, Patrick de Maré, J.B. Morrell and Sylvan S. Schweber. Peter Medawar, The Art of the Soluble ...
The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific ...
Thomas S. Kuhn"Kuhn has the unmistakable address of a man, who, so far from wanting to score points, is anxious above all else to get at the truth of matters."—Sir Peter Medawar, Nature
Induction and Intuition in Scientific Thought
P B MedawarThis book explains what is wrong with the traditional methodology of "inductive" reasoning and shows that the alternative scheme of reasoning associated with Whewell, Pierce and Popper can give the scientist a useful insight into the way he ...
The Limits of Science
Peter Brian MedawarThe Nobel laureate separates the major questions that science may be able to answer from those beyond the limits of science and explains why and how science can deal with the former
Fairer Future for Children
Mia Kellmer PringleJean Medawar This chapter endeavours to take a bird's eye or historical view of the sort of prevention we are all wishing to plan or promote. In general, I think it is damage – damage to the inherited equipment of a child, and, from birth onwards ...
The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic ...
Peter Brian MedawarIntroduction by David Pyke xiv 1. The Phenomenon of Man 1 2. Hypothesis and imagination 12 3. Is the scientific paper a fraud? 33 4. The Act of Creation 40 5. Darwin's illness 52 6. Two conceptions of science 59 7. Science and the sanctity of ...
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