Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water with Reflections on the Ups and Downs of Scientific Life in General

Charles Tanford

Format
Hardback
Publisher
Duke University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 January 1989
Pages
237
ISBN
9780822308768

Ben Franklin Stilled the Waves: An Informal History of Pouring Oil on Water with Reflections on the Ups and Downs of Scientific Life in General

Charles Tanford

Among the many phenomena which engaged the scientific imagination of Benjamin Franklin (1773) is the fact that a drop of oil, if placed on water, spreads out to form a film too thin even to produce prismatic colors but capable still of smoothing the waves. The author, formerly a professor of phy

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