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SCIENTIFIC JOURNEYS - H FREDERICK DYLLA KARTONI...

This collection of essays traces a scientific journey bookmarked by remarkable mentors and
milestones of science. It provides fascinating reading for everyone interested in the history 
public appreciation  and value of science  as well as giving first-hand accounts of many key
events and prominent figures. The author was one of the sputnik kids growing up in the US at
the start of the space age. He built a working laser just two years after they were first
invented  an experience that convinced him to become a physicist. During his 50-year career in
physics  many personalities and notable events in science and technology helped to form his
view of how science contributes to the modern world   including his conviction that the impact
of science can be most effective when introduced within the context of the humanities -
especially history  literature and the arts. From the Foreword by former U.S. Congressman 
RushD. Holt: In this volume  we have the wide-ranging thoughts and observations of Fred Dylla 
an accomplished physicist with an engineer's fascination for gadgets  a historian's long
perspective  an artist's aesthetic eye  and a teacher's passion for sharing ideas. Throughout
his varied career [...] his curiosity has been his foremost characteristic and his ability to
see the connection between apparently disparate things his greatest skill. [...] Here he
examines the roots and growth of innovation in examples from Bell Laboratories  Edison Electric
Light Company  and cubist painter Georges Braque. He considers the essential place of
publishing in science  that epochal intellectual technique for learning how the world works. He
shows the human enrichment and practical benefits that derive from wise investments in
scientific research  as well as the waste resulting from a failure to embrace appropriate
technologies.

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