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Albemarle Street: Portraits, Personalities and Presentations at The Royal Institution de John Meurig Thomas

Albemarle Street: Portraits, Personalities and Presentations at The Royal Institution

Autor John Meurig Thomas
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 oct 2021

Găsim în Albemarle Street o metodologie ce îmbină rigoarea istorică cu intimitatea memoriilor, materialul fiind organizat în jurul figurilor emblematice care au modelat The Royal Institution. Structura volumului nu este una strict cronologică, ci mai degrabă o galerie de portrete ce reflectă dubla natură a instituției: centru de cercetare de elită și spațiu de comunicare a științei către publicul larg. Autorul folosește experiența personală de două decenii petrecute la această adresă pentru a oferi o perspectivă din interior asupra modului în care știința a interacționat cu artele și umanioarele.

Suntem de părere că relevanța acestui titlu pentru istoria științei este susținută de cele 155 de ilustrații care documentează vizual evoluția laboratoarelor unde s-au pus bazele electricității și ale biologiei moleculare. Tonul este unul precis, evitând speculația în favoarea faptelor biografice și a realizărilor tehnice. John Meurig Thomas poziționează această lucrare ca o continuare narativă a preocupărilor sale din Michael Faraday and The Royal Institution, însă extinde cadrul pentru a include un spectru mai larg de „arhitecți” ai cunoașterii, de la laureați ai Premiului Nobel până la egiptologi.

Considerăm această ediție o alternativă la ‘The Common Purposes of Life’ de Frank A. J. L. James pentru cursurile de Istoria Științei sau Management Cultural, cu avantajul unei abordări mult mai personale și al unui aparat vizual bogat, care transformă cronica instituțională într-o experiență de lectură accesibilă și estetică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192898005
ISBN-10: 0192898000
Pagini: 284
Ilustrații: 155 half tones and colour images
Dimensiuni: 164 x 240 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.63 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează studenților la istorie, cercetătorilor și pasionaților de cultura britanică. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere profundă a modului în care un singur spațiu fizic din Londra a generat inovații care au schimbat lumea, de la becul electric la structura virusurilor. Este un motiv concret de achiziție pentru oricine dorește să descopere latura umană a marilor descoperiri științifice prin ochii unui fost director al instituției.

Despre autor

John Meurig Thomas a fost un chimist britanic de renume mondial, servind ca director al The Royal Institution și șef al Departamentului de Chimie Fizică la Universitatea din Cambridge. Expertiza sa în cataliză eterogenă și microscopie electronică este dublată de un talent recunoscut pentru biografie și istoria științei. Lucrările sale, precum Design and Applications of Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts sau Architects of Structural Biology, reflectă capacitatea sa de a naviga între cercetarea fundamentală și narativul istoric, fiind unul dintre cei mai importanți comunicatori ai patrimoniului științific britanic.

Descriere

The Royal Institution of Great Britain is renowned the world over, first, because it is a premier arena for the advancement of new scientific and technological knowledge; and second because it highlights the advance of knowledge of all kinds. It bridges the sciences and the humanities, and as much publicity is given to advances in the arts, archaeology, architecture, drama and literature as to the pure and applied sciences. More famous scientists have lived and worked in the Royal Institution than in any other laboratory in the world. A roll-call includes Rumford, Davy, Faraday, Tyndall, Dewar, Rayleigh, W. H. Bragg, W. L. Bragg and George Porter. Not is it only the home of continuous electricity, it is also the birthplace of many aspects of molecular biology and viruses and enzymology. Some fifteen scientists who have won the Nobel Prize have, at one time or another, worked or lectured at the RI. And eminent individuals, like Howard Carter and Coleridge, have lectured there.Albemarle Street - Portraits, Personalities and Presentations at The Royal institution is a lively and compelling personal selection of the remarkable personalities and achievements of some of the extraordinary scientists and individuals who, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, worked or lectured at 21 Albemarle Street in Mayfair, central London. John Meurig Thomas offers a unique and valuable insight into the history of this prestigious address, having himself lived and worked at the Royal Institution for some twenty years.

Recenzii

The publisher spared no expense in obtaining high--quality color reproductions of portraits and photos relating to TRI. Thomas intended the book as a popular treatment rather than a scholarly history. Although the text is annotated by footnotes, most of the material is drawn from secondary sources such as obituaries, and historians will find it more entertaining than illuminating. That said, for conveying what TRI is all about and documenting the scope and variety of famous people who passed through its doors over the years, this book has no peer.
It is a delight to read, beautifully written, and is both a historical and personal chronicle of an institution that was and still remains a mecca of science communication in Britain.
The Royal Institution is a national treasure, a jewel in Britain's scientific crown. Nobody is better qualified to tell its historic story than its former Director, Sir John Meurig Thomas. His book will delight all who care about science and its history.
John Meurig Thomas's writing style is lively and accessible - portraying a range of distinguished and idiosyncratic characters. It would be hard to think of any author who could do a better job of portraying these people's lives and achievements for a wide readership - conveying what it was like to be a scientist, and what their role in society was.
There is no place in London which has housed such talent and adventurous exploration of the world as The Royal Institution. The retelling in context of unusual and pivotal RI discourses, such as that of Grove on the fuel cell, Andrew on MRI, is a very strong feature of the book. The excursions on potentially the most famous experiments and Egyptomania are really fun.
Reading it is effortless and compelling. The author has a style that is absent in many writers today and he keeps the reader interested.
This is a high-quality book, written by a master craftsman in words. The chapters are packed full of useful and interesting information that I have not come across before. It is a fascinating book to read.
A wonderful book - The Royal Institution has been a very special place, with a remarkable cast of characters: Count Rumford, Humphry Davy, Michael Faraday, Thomas Young… Sir John is the perfect person to write about it.
A gem akin to his Architects of Structural Biology book, and very likely to draw a wide potential readership.
Many of the anecdotes are indeed interesting, informative, and illuminating â and from time to time amusing...every scientist should get something really interesting and enjoyable from reading what must have been one of the last things John Meurig Thomas wrote.
The book is illustrated with both black-and-white and color photos. It is a delight to read, beautifully written, and is both a historical and personal chronicle of an institution that was and still remains a mecca of science communication in Britain.

Notă biografică

Sir John Meurig Thomas is Former Director of the Royal Institution of Great Britain and the Davy-Faraday Research Laboratory, London, and former Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge. He was Head of the Department of Physical Chemistry and Professorial Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge. John Meurig Thomas was knighted for services to chemistry and the popularisation of science. His biography of Michael Faraday has been translated into Japanese, Chinese and Italian. He has received numerous international and national awards for his work, including the Royal Medal of the Royal Society for his contributions to green chemistry and clean technology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, and of the Swedish and Russian Academies of Sciences.