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Tables of Contents for Portraits of Discovery
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Prologue The Other World
1
6
1 The Ladies of Observatory Hill: Annie Jump Cannon and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
7
24
2 The Bulldog: Ludwig Boltzmann and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
31
21
3 The Magician: George Gamow
52
16
4 A Gentleman of the Old School: Homi Bhabha and the Development of Science in India
68
24
5 Luie's Gadgets: Luis Alvarez and the Extinction of the Dinosaurs
92
29
6 All Genius and All Buffoon: Richard Feynman
121
30
7 Big Science: Martin Perl and the World of High Energy Physics
151
36
8 Our Address in the Universe: Margaret Geller and John Huchra
187
32
Sources
219
4
Acknowledgments
223
2
Index
225