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Born in Belgium, Karel Jan Bossart moved to America and worked with brilliant and colorful aircraft designers in the 1930s. After the Second World War, he developed the first American intercontinental ballistic missile, employing radical innovations in design. Initially skeptical, the US Air Force embraced his plan after they realized that the Soviet Union was close to completing a similar weapon system.

Elon Musk is famous as a forward-looking multibillionaire entrepreneur who founded SpaceX and is the CEO of Tesla Inc., the electric car manufacturer. But Musk was an entrepreneur before SpaceX and Tesla. That’s how he made the money that allowed him to focus on those two companies. And he has visions of the future that go even beyond his two famous futuristic enterprises. This book will tell you about Elon Musk's childhood and formative years, the companies that helped him build a fortune, and the companies that he built with that fortune. 

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Bharat 2020 and learn about A.P.J. Abdul Kalam's plan for how India can be included in the most powerful and prosperous five nations of the world in the next 20 years.

Walter Isaacson vertelt het verhaal van DNA-expert en Nobelprijswinnaar Jennifer Doudna. In oktober 2020 ontving biochemicus Jennifer Doudna samen met haar collega Emmanuelle Charpentier de Nobelprijs voor de Scheikunde voor hun doorslaggevende bijdrage aan de ontwikkeling van CRISPR-Cas. Met deze techniek kunnen wetenschappers het menselijk genoom bewerken door te knippen en plakken in DNA-sequenties.

Het laatste boek van professor Stephen Hawking. Hoe is alles begonnen? Is er intelligent leven elders in het heelal? Kunnen we de toekomst voorspellen? Bestaat er een God? Wat zit er in een zwart gat? Zijn tijdreizen mogelijk? Zullen we overleven op aarde? Moeten we de ruimte koloniseren? Zal kunstmatige intelligentie slimmer worden dan wij? Hoe geven wij de toekomst vorm? De wereldberoemde wetenschapper en bestsellerauteur Stephen Hawking laat ons zijn laatste ideeën over de grootste vragen van het universum na in dit briljante postuum uitgegeven werk.

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Jens Vilstrup interviewer Jannick Brennum. MÆND - DE BEDSTE PORTRÆTTER samler for første gang mere end 25 års portrætter fra magasinet til en bog, der ikke blot fortæller historien om forskellige kendte, danske mænd, men også viser et tværsnit af politik, sport og kultur i det moderne Danmark i samme periode. Hvert portræt bliver aktualiseret ved, at skribenten fortæller om, hvordan interviewet blev til, og hvordan det foregik.

Ian Stewart presenta las vidas extraordinarias y los sorprendentes descubrimientos de 25 de los mejores matemáticos de la historia, desde Arquímedes y Liu Hui hasta Benoit Mandelbrot y William Thurston. Sus sujetos son personas inspiradoras que han hecho contribuciones cruciales a las Matemáticas.  

Nikola Tesla był niedocenionym za życia geniuszem elektrotechniki - jednym z najwybitniejszych umysłów nowożytnego świata, autorem ponad 300 patentów i twórcą przeszło 120 wynalazków, które przyczyniły się do dynamicznego rozwoju inżynierii elektrycznej i innych gałęzi nauki w XX wieku. Bez niego nieznane byłyby m.in. elektrownie wodne, prąd zmienny, prądnica, pilot do telewizora, roboty przemysłowe ani radio. Jego życie kryje również wiele tajemnic.

Альберт Эйнштейн, лауреат Нобелевской премии по физике, автор знаменитой формулы E = mc2. Создатель теории относительности, один из основателей современной теоретической физики, написал более 300 научных работ, множество книг и статей в области истории и философии науки.

Was ist Ihr Erfolgsrezept, Maye Musk? Sie ist internationales Supermodel, weltweit gefragte Keynote-Speakerin und angesehene Ernährungs-Beraterin - und das im Alter von 72 Jahren. Maye Musk beweist: Frau ist nie zu alt für etwas Neues. Alles, was dafür nötig ist, ist ein Plan. In ihrer exklusiven Autobiografie gibt sie ehrlich und ungeschönt Einblick in die vielen Stationen ihres Lebens und ihrer Karriere: Wie die Flüge in einer kleinen Propellermaschine ohne GPS quer durch die Wildnis Südafrikas schon als Kind ihre Abenteuerlust weckten.

July 13, 1938: The renowned nuclear physicist Lise Meitner, approaching the age of 60, sits on the train that will take her to the German-Dutch border and then to the safety of exile in Sweden. After months of uncertainty and fear, as a Jew in Nazi Germany, she has abandoned everything: her friends, her career, and her beloved adopted home, the city of Berlin, where she had become a pioneer in the world of nuclear physics.

Nel novembre 2018 l'astrofisico Federico Nati parte per una missione in Antartide con un team internazionale. La missione è rischiosa e ambiziosa: spedire nella stratosfera un telescopio di tre tonnellate per studiare la nascita delle stelle e le origini del cosmo. Gli scienziati combattono contro le difficoltà del lavoro sperimentale, amplificate dalla ostilità dell'ambiente polare, per portare a compimento l'esperimento su cui hanno scommesso anni di lavoro e carriera.

"Oggi il ministro, con mia sorpresa, mi ha comunicato la revoca dell'incarico di presidente ASI. È il primo spoils system di ente di ricerca. Grazie alle migliaia di persone con cui ho condiviso quattro anni fantastici di spazio italiano." Con questo messaggio, il 6 novembre 2018, Roberto Battiston annuncia il suo allontanamento dall'Agenzia spaziale italiana. Un cambio improvviso, imposto dalla politica, diventa per l'autore l'occasione di raccontare per la prima volta dall'interno il mondo dello spazio italiano.

La sua immagine è dappertutto. Su tazze, magliette, sui muri delle città, su spille e borse; e le sue frasi e i suoi aforismi sulla scienza e sulla vita sono citati ogni giorno. Albert Einstein è il vero scienziato iconico del secolo scorso; il suo nome - anche per chi fatichi a masticare le teorie fisiche - è sinonimo di genio eccentrico (famoso l'aneddoto che vuole il suo guardaroba pieno di completi identici così da non perdere tempo al mattino a pensare come vestirsi); saggezza bonaria; ma anche risolutezza.

In questo audiolibro Rita Levi-Montalcini racconta la storia della scoperta per la quale nel 1986 ricevette il Nobel per la medicina. La storia non tanto e solo degli esiti di una mirabile ricerca, ma di una lunga avventura scientifica i cui sviluppi non smettono di dare frutti. Nel primo dopoguerra, trasferitasi negli Stati Uniti per un breve soggiorno di studio che sarebbe invece durato trent'anni, l'illustre scienziata si dedicò allo studio in vitro di embrioni di pollo nei quali aveva innestato un tumore maligno di topo.

Julian Barnes lernte Dr. Samuel Pozzi (1846-1918) kennen, als er das Porträt Mann im roten Rock von John Sargent Singer betrachtete. Es zeigt den Arztpionier, Freigeist und intellektuellen Wissenschaftler, der seiner Zeit weit voraus war. Kenntnisreich und elegant beschreibt Julian Barnes das schillernde Leben Dr. Pozzis und entwirft das Bild einer Ära, die wir heute Belle Epoque nennen und die neben Schönheit und Glamour auch ihre hässlichen Seiten hatte.

As his parents watched their restaurant business collapse in the wake of the Great Recession, Michael Sayman was googling “how to code". Within a year, he had launched an iPhone app that was raking in thousands of dollars a month, enough to keep his family afloat - and in America. Entirely self-taught, Sayman headed from high school straight into the professional world, and by the time he was 17, he was Facebook’s youngest employe ever, building new features that wowed its founder Mark Zuckerberg and are now being used by more than half a billion people every day.

Dr. Catherine "Cathy" DeAngelis has shattered numerous glass ceilings in medicine for herself and generations of women she's mentored. Raised in 1940s hardscrabble Pennsylvania coal mining country, Cathy's unyielding determination and indomitable self-belief steamrolled medicine's entrenched sexism. In a life filled with "firsts," she was named the first woman editor-in-chief of JAMA - the Journal of the American Medical Association.