By Margaret Cheney, Gregorio Cantera, Nacho Palou
L. a. primera biografía que se publica en español sobre uno de los personajes más influyentes de l. a. ciencia contemporánea. Un relato completo de l. a. vida y los angeles obra de Tesla en el entorno de los angeles revolución business. Hoy pocos recuerdan a Nikola Tesla, pero gracias a él se enciende l. a. bombilla del techo cuando pulsamos un interruptor. Fue el descubridor del campo magnético rotatorio, l. a. base de los angeles corriente alterna que hoy ilumina el mundo; pero también el padre de tecnologías visionarias en su época como los angeles robótica, l. a. informática o las armas teledirigidas. Nikola Tesla es el paradigma del inventor genial, los angeles mente creativa sin perspicacia para los negocios, y su vida es l. a. historia de un fogonazo de luz que iluminó a todos los que lo rodearon, para apagarse de forma triste…y resurgir hoy, con el homenaje y el recuerdo de los científicos modernos que reconocen a Tesla como “el padre de l. a. tecnología moderna”.
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Avoid dumb people. 2. Be prepared to get into deep trouble. 3. Be sure you always have someone up your sleeve who will save you when you find yourself in deep s-. 4. Never do anything that bores you. 5. Expose your ideas to informed criticism. 6. 21 When I lecture about Watson in my course on the great discoveries in the twentieth century, I tell my students what would happen if Watson opened the door to our auditorium and looked for a place to sit down: He would look around searchingly and would sit next to the person in the audience whom he perceived to be the most interesting.
This was perfectly normal and constituted a brilliant example of how the next discovery builds on previous discoveries, utilizing published data and techniques. Watson and Crick needed “only” to put together all the relevant information after they had performed the most crucial act of posing the right questions. Theirs was an unusual but very efficient approach to research at that time: using other people's measurements, techniques, experimental results, and conclusions. 17 Watson and Crick's working style appeared unorthodox to many.
It certainly was not sheer luck, because it was his decision about what to do and where to continue his career when he faced competing options. But circumstances, too, favored what he decided doing. ”8 It was less through his background at home than the environments he eventually found himself in and utilized that made him privileged. Watson came from a nonpracticing Christian family with mostly Irish and Scottish roots. His family lived on the south side of Chicago in a neighborhood that was not very well-to-do, but it was not impoverished either.