Michael Polanyi : scientist and philosopher / William Taussig Scott and Martin X. Moleski.

  • Scott, William T. (William Taussig), 1916-1999.
Date:
2005
  • Books

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Publication/Creation

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.

Physical description

xx, 364 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm

Contents

Early years -- Coming of age in the Great War -- Karlsruhe -- The Fiber Institute -- Institute for Physical Chemistry -- Physical chemistry and economics -- The philosophy of freedom -- Personal knowledge -- Scholar at large : 1959-1976 -- Merton College, Oxford -- At the wheel of the world -- The last years -- Epilogue.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-326 and index.

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    History of Medicine
    BZP (Polanyi)
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ISBN

  • 019517433X
  • 9780195174335