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    The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery

    Written by Graeme Donald

    Narrated by David Thorpe

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    Have you ever wondered how the ideas for some things come about?

    Surprisingly, it is often as much down to chance as a single person's brilliance. The Accidental Scientist explores the role of chance and error in scientific, medical and commercial innovation, outlining exactly how some of the most well-known products, gadgets and useful gizmos came to be.

    Encompassing everything from DNA profiling to fingerprinting and TNT to the telephone, this book explores many of the discoveries that we are all so familiar with today yet have the most interesting origins because of the stories behind them. Not all discoveries require brilliance, and, as The Accidental Scientist demonstrates, sometimes a special ingredient is needed: luck.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIsis Publishing Ltd Audio
    Release dateJun 1, 2018
    ISBN9781445070599
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    Graeme Donald

    Graeme Donald has been researching the origins of words, nursery rhymes, superstitions and popular misconceptions for many years and has published nine previous books, most recently Fighting Talk and Sticklers, Sideburns and Bikinis for Osprey Publishing. He wrote a daily column for Today newspaper for the ten years of its publication and has also written for The Mirror and The Age in Melbourne.

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