Berger, Melvin

Describes the equipment, research projects, scientific personnel, and daily routines at the fourteen-year-old South Pole Station.

The authors approach music from the scientific angle, explaining all about sound waves, pitch, resonance, etc.; the voice mechanism and different groups of instruments; and the workings of hi-fis, phonographs, microphones, and other sound equipment.

Discusses the necessity for measurement in all aspects of daily life and describes the methods and instruments which have been developed to precisely and accurately measure distance, temperature, length, weight, light and time.

Biographical portraits of fourteen biologists who, in the past 100 years, have pursued research in disease, genetics, and the origin of life: Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Paul Ehrlich, Frederick Grant Banting, Alexander Fleming, Charles Darwin, Gregor Johann Mendel, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Hermann J. Muller, Wendell M. Stanley, Jonas E. Salk, Melvin Calvin, and Francis H. C. Crick and James Dewey Watson.

Biographical portraits of fourteen biologists who, in the past 100 years, have pursued research in disease, genetics, and the origin of life: Louis Pasteur, Robert Koch, Paul Ehrlich, Frederick Grant Banting, Alexander Fleming, Charles Darwin, Gregor Johann Mendel, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Hermann J. Muller, Wendell M. Stanley, Jonas E. Salk, Melvin Calvin, and Francis H. C. Crick and James Dewey Watson.