Free Radicals - Michael Brooks [142]
Energy Conversion Devices 211, 212
Englert, François 180
environmental movement origins of 15, 17, 232
ethics education 71
in research 103, 107, 119, 123, 127–8
committees 254–5
IVF 134–7
eukaryotes, microbial symbiosis in evolution of 181–6
experimentation, reckless 101–32
expressed sequence tags 143
F
falsification of data 60, 71–2
Faraday, Michael 33–8, 39, 252
Farman, Joe 228
fear of science 4
Fermi, Enrico 31–3
Feyerabend, Paul 5–6, 39, 43, 247
Feynman, Richard 146, 246
FitzGerald, Kevin 147
Fletcher, Harvey 50–1, 52
foetal and embryonic research 134–41, 137–57
Fore tribe 75–8
Forssmann, Werner 104–6, 108–9, 247–8
Francis, Thomas 88–9, 90
Franklin, Rosalind 245
fraud see misbehaviour
Freeman, Dorothy 233–4
Fuller, Michael 242, 245, 259
Fuller, Richard Buckminster 16
fusion reactions see nuclear reactions
G
Gabor, Dennis 230
Gajdusek, Carleton 76–8, 99
Galileo Galilei 6, 42–3, 44, 45, 46, 48, 61, 160
Galvani, Luigi 24
gametes (germ cells), synthetic/artificial 148–51, 156
gases, kinetic theory of 179
gastric ulcers and spiral bacteria 112–25
Gauss, Friedrich 169
Geim, Andre 258
Gell-Mann, Murray 92, 99
GenBank 143
gene(s)
imprinting 151–2
mutations 173, 184
regulation/control 175, 177
general relativity theory 63, 66, 193, 250
genetic variation and endosymbiosis 184
genomes in caterpillar/butterfly evolution 188
human, sequencing 143–4
synthetic, creation 145–6
see also DNA
geomagnetic storm 204–5
germ cells, synthetic/artificial 148–51, 156
Giedd, Jay 127–8
Gingerich, Owen 47
global warming see climate change
God 10, 33–9, 63, 157, 161, 162
Gold, Thomas 190
Goodstein, David 51
Gosden, Roger 153–4, 156
Gould, Stephen Jay 186, 221
gravity (and gravitation) 36, 47, 60, 64, 68, 250
dying stars, black holes and 194, 195
electron charge and 50
gravitational waves 250
Great Ape Project 158–9
Greeks, ancient, origin of Universe 159–60
greenhouse gases 235–8
Griffith, John Stanley 80, 81, 94
Grinell, Frederick 55
Grinspoon, Lester 246
Grossman, Edward 156
gyromagnetic ratio 58–9
H
Haldane, J. B. S. 108, 214
Haldane, J. S. 108
Hall, Richard 110–11
hallucinogenic/psychedelic drugs (incl. LSD) 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 111, 112, 243–4, 245, 246, 247, 259
Halstead, William 110–11
Hannah, Daryl 238
Hansen, James 234–9, 241
Harvey, William 38
Hawking, Stephen 1–2, 10, 161–2
heart, catheterisation 104–7
Heisenberg, Werner 69
HeLa cells 128
Helicobacter pylori (spiral bacteria) and stomach ulcers 112–25
Helmholtz, Hermann 95
Hemingway, Ernest 193, 194
heredity see genetics Higgs boson 180–1
Hildebrand, Joel 164
Hildebrandt, August 111
Hillis, Daniel 182, 185
Hoddeson, Lillian 166, 167
Hodgkin, Alan Lloyd 33
Hooke, Robert 7
hookworm infection 129–32
human genome, sequencing 143–4
human rights and non-human primates 157–9
Huxley, Aldous 148, 155, 243
Hwang Woo-suk 127
I
imaginary numbers 29
immune system, human 129
imprinted genes 151–2
inheritance see genetics
insecticides (pesticides) and the environment 231–3
insemination, artificial 140
donor sperm 147
Institute for Amorphous Studies 212
Intel 210, 211
intuition 48, 55
ionosphere 203
IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) 236–7
Ito, Susumo 114–15
IVF (in vitro fertilisation) 134–8, 141, 142, 147, 151, 152, 153, 154–5, 156
J
Jacob, François 177
James, William 24, 39
Japan
gastric cancer and spiral bacteria 115
unethical WWII experiments 107
Jews, Nazi experimentation on 107
Jobs, Steve 21
Johnson, George 54
Josephson, Brian 190
K
Kaplan, Nathan 142
Kavli Royal Society International Centre 216
Keith–Spiegel, Patricia 103
Kekulé, August 26–7, 39
Kepler, Johannes 46
Keynes, John Maynard 23
Kimberlin, Richard 82
kinetic theory of gases 179
Koch, Cristof 244
Koch, Robert, and