Thinking about Science with David Hukins
Understanding science NOT learning "facts".
- By David Hukins
- Based in France
- Roughly 11 posts per year
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Most recent posts
I have written about the first, second and third laws of thermodynamics; these three laws are numbered in chronological order and, I believe, in logical order. But, in 1932, the English physicist Sir Ralph Fowler …
A more accurate description of this post would be, seeking a single, simple cause for the combined effect of many factors. But this would be a very cumbersome heading. Let’s look at an everyday example: …
This post is about how organic chemistry and biochemistry got their names. The Swedish chemist Jöns Berzelius (1807-1882) appears to have introduced the name “organic chemistry” for the study of molecules derived from living things. …