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In a sweeping yet marvelously concise history, Tom Shachtman ushers us into a world in which scientists tease apart the all-important secrets of cold. Readers take an extraordinary trip, starting in the 1600s with an alchemist's air conditioning of Westminster Abbey and scientists' creation of thermometers. Later, while entrepreneurs sold Walden Pond ice to tropical countries -- packed in "high-tech" sawdust -- researchers pursued absolute zero and interpreted their work as romantically asdid adventurers to remote regions. Today, playing with ultracold temperatures is one of the hottest frontiers in physics, with scientists creating useful particles Einstein only dreamed of. Tom Shachtman shares a great scientific adventure story and its characters' rich lives in a book that has won a grant from the prestigious Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Absolute Zero is for everyone who loves history and science history stories, who's eager to explore Nobel Prize-winning physics today, or who has ever sighed with pleasure on encountering air conditioning.

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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-10
0395938880
ISBN-13
9780395938881
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236146

Product Key Features

Author
Tom Shachtman
Publication Name
Absolute Zero : and the ConQuest of Cold
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1999
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
272 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
8.2in.
Item Height
0.7in.
Item Width
5.5in.
Item Weight
14.5 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Qc278.S48 1999
Edition Description
Teacher's Edition
Reviews
"Tom Shachtman's done to ABSOLUTE ZERO AND THE CONQUEST OF COLD what Dava Sobel did to LONGITUDE."--Jerry E. Bishop, former science editor, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL "Just plain fascinating ... tells in extraordinary detail the history of the search for absolute zero--which, amazingly, involves everyone from Galileo to Einstein!" -- Bradford Washburn, founding director, Boston's Museum of Science, and recipient, Centennial Award of the National Geographic Society "It's a lovely, fascinating book, which brings science to life." -- Alan Lightman, author of GOOD BENITO and EINSTEIN'S DREAMS
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Topic
History, Research & Methodology
Lccn
99-033305
Dewey Decimal
536/.56
Dewey Edition
21
Genre
Science

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