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Science Sketches Sidney Perkowitz (Emory University, U.S.A.)

Science Sketches By Sidney Perkowitz (Emory University, U.S.A.)

Science Sketches by Sidney Perkowitz (Emory University, U.S.A.)


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Summary

This book is the second collection of over 50 articles and essays authored by Sidney Perkowitz.

Science Sketches Summary

Science Sketches: The Universe from Different Angles by Sidney Perkowitz (Emory University, U.S.A.)

  • The book draws on Prof. Perkowitz's career as successful researcher, teacher, and writer and his broad interests to give him unique insights into how science and scientists connect with general culture and society.
  • The book is especially strong in its coverage of science and art, and science in film. Illustrations from Hollywood films and independent and experimental films increase the book's appeal.
  • The book's mix of varied topics in science and technology, and of short and long pieces written in accessible style, will appeal to general readers.

About Sidney Perkowitz (Emory University, U.S.A.)

Sidney Perkowitz was born in New York City, attended college at Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute (now the NYU Tandon School of Engineering), and earned his doctorate in physics at the University of Pennsylvania. As Charles Howard Candler Professor of Physics at Emory University, he produced over 100 research papers and books. As Professor Emeritus, he has presented science for non-scientists in books (Empire of Light, Universal Foam and Universal Foam 2.0, Digital People, Hollywood Science, Slow Light, Hollywood Chemistry, Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon, and Real Scientists Don't Wear Ties) that have been translated into seven languages and Braille; over 200 articles and book chapters in the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, New Scientist, Leonardo, Discover, Physics World, Encyclopedia Britannica, Aeon, Quo, Los Angeles Review of Books, JSTOR Daily, James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction, and elsewhere; and theatrical works produced in Atlanta, New York, and Chicago. He has appeared on CNN, NPR, the BBC, and other outlets, and venues such as NASA, Microsoft, the American Museum of Natural History, the High Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Atlanta Science Festival, and various cafe scientifiques, to discuss topics from science in the media to the science of food. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and in 2015, received a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts.
http://sidneyperkowitz.net/, @physp

Table of Contents

Looking at Nature Without and Within Doing the Math Four Scientists and a Quest Technology in Society Science, Fiction, and Art

Additional information

GOR013285812
9789814877947
9814877948
Science Sketches: The Universe from Different Angles by Sidney Perkowitz (Emory University, U.S.A.)
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Jenny Stanford Publishing
20220310
306
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