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June 13 – Pioneer 10 passes the orbit of Neptune, becoming the first man-made object to travel beyond the major planets of the Solar System. September 26 – The Soyuz T-10-1 mission ends in a pad abort at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, when a pad fire occurs at the base of the Soyuz U rocket during the launch countdown.
Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in the Halls of Science is a book by William Broad and Nicholas Wade, published in 1982 by Simon & Schuster in New York, and subsequently (1983) also by Century Publishing in London, and with a simplified subtitle as Betrayers of the Truth: Fraud and Deceit in Science by Oxford University Press in 1985.
The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher, 1983, Viking: ISBN 0-670-79533-X, Penguin Books, 1995 reprint: ISBN 0-14-024327-5 Et Cetera, Et Cetera: Notes of a Word-Watcher , 1990. Little Brown & Co ISBN 0-316-84099-8 , Welcome Rain, 2000 ISBN 1-56649-166-5
The Discoverers is a non-fiction historical work by Daniel Boorstin, published in 1983, and is the first in the Knowledge Trilogy, which also includes The Creators and The Seekers. The book, subtitled A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself, is a history of human discovery. Discovery in many forms is described: exploration ...
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Excerpt from The Measure of the Universe (1983) "1 to 999" (complete mystery story from The Union Club Mysteries (1983)) Part 4. Physics "Let Einstein Be!" (complete science essay from Counting the Eons (1983)) "Converting It All" (complete science essay from Change! (1981)) Part 5. Chemistry "Big Brother" (complete science essay from X Stands ...
1983: Kary Mullis invents the polymerase chain reaction, a key discovery in molecular biology 1986: Karl Müller and Johannes Bednorz : Discovery of High-temperature superconductivity 1988: Bart van Wees [ nl ] and colleagues at TU Delft and Philips Research discovered the quantized conductance in a two-dimensional electron gas.
For physicists the book is an instructive guide to why and how today's new science may affect tomorrow's society. For non-scientists it will provide a rare insight into the world of scientific endeavours; for all readers alike this will be a useful synthesis of the histories of all branches of qualitative and quantitative enquiry.