Biología humana

Desde tiempos inmemoriales el hombre se dio cuenta de que despu s de frotar con un pa o un tipo de resina llamado mbar, sta adquir a la capacidad de atraer objetos ligeros. En griego, mbar se dice elektron, y de esta palabra se deriva electricidad. Estas l neas del libro de Eliezer Braun anuncian uno de los hallazgos cient ficos m s importantes por sus repercusiones Para el desarrollo de la civilizaci n moderna: la relaci n entre la electricidad y el magnetismo.

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

Presented in chronological order, this book teaches readers about the greatest accomplishments and discoveries of science from the Ancient Greeks to the present. They include geometry, vaccinations, the periodic table, the theory of relativity, Teflon, nano-technology, and much more.

"The Higgs boson ... is the key to understanding why mass exists and how atoms are possible. After billions of dollars and decades of effort by more than six thousand researchers at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland--a doorway is opening into the mind-boggling world of dark matter and beyond. Caltech physicist and acclaimed writer Sean Carroll explains both the importance of the Higgs boson and the ultimately human story behind the greatest scientific achievement of our time"--Publisher.