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02593cam a2200397 a 4500 001 CECAB4862AFD11DE88878907A8D7520A 003 SILO 005 20161116010312 008 000831s2001 nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 00046309 020 $a 9780380806133 (pbk.) 020 $a 0380806134 (pbk.) 020 $a 9780380977543 (hc.) 020 $a 0380977540 (hc.) 040 $a DLC $c DLC $d SILO $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BUR $d IWV $d SILO 050 00 $a Q125 $b .W32 2001 082 00 $a 509 $2 21 100 1 $a White, Michael, $d 1959- 245 0 $a Acid tongues and tranquil dreamers : $b tales of bitter rivalry that fueled the advancement of science and technology / $c Michael White. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b Morrow, $c 2001. 300 $a 430 p. ; $c 25 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a As George Bernard Shaw said, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Like other creative geniuses, scientists have achieved breakthroughs as a result of irrational motives--notably the desire to best a rival. Revealing how each resulted in extraordinary discoveries, Michael White explores eight all-too-human rivalries over the past four centuries.--From publisher description. 505 0 $a Introduction: The long road to reason -- Second inventors count for nothing : Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, 1673-1716 -- The fanatic and the tax collector : Antoine Lavoisier and Joseph Priestley, 1774-1794 -- Of monkeys and men : Charles Darwin and Richard Owen, 1859-1882 -- The battle of the currents : Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison, 1884-1893 -- Of atom bombs and human beings : the Allies and the Axis powers, 1939-1945 -- The race for the prize : Francis Crick and James Watson versus Linus Pauling versus Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, 1951-1953 -- Reaching for the moon : the United States and the Soviet Union, 1957-1969 -- The battle of the cyber-kings : Bill Gates and Larry Ellison, 1995- 650 0 $a Science $x History. 650 0 $a Technology $x History. 650 0 $a Competition (Psychology) 856 42 $3 Publisher description $u http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc042/00046309.html 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020015200.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160820101554.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20090701080000.0 952 $l OMAX631 $d 20090701080000.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CECAB4862AFD11DE88878907A8D7520A 994 $a 02 $b IWVInitiate Another SILO Locator Search