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- catalog abstract ""How many electrons can dance on the head of a pin? What do DNA strands look like when chased by an electrical charge? Using innovative photographic technology, MIT artist-in-residence Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty in the undulations of liquid crystal film, the gymnastics of plastic microstructures, the migratory trudge of bacteria, and other scientific wonders." "What do these experiments teach us, and how might such scientific innovations affect our world? A fascinating text by world-renowned Harvard chemistry professor George M. Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10491839.
- catalog contributor b10491840.
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description ""How many electrons can dance on the head of a pin? What do DNA strands look like when chased by an electrical charge? Using innovative photographic technology, MIT artist-in-residence Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty in the undulations of liquid crystal film, the gymnastics of plastic microstructures, the migratory trudge of bacteria, and other scientific wonders." "What do these experiments teach us, and how might such scientific innovations affect our world? A fascinating text by world-renowned Harvard chemistry professor George M. Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- The sizes of things -- Light -- Form -- Order -- Change -- Disorder -- Illusion.".
- catalog extent "160 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0811813711 (hc)".
- catalog identifier "0811813940 (pb)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco : Chronicle Books,".
- catalog subject "530.4/17 21".
- catalog subject "Optical images.".
- catalog subject "QC173.4.S94 F73 1997".
- catalog subject "Surfaces (Physics) Pictorial works.".
- catalog subject "Surfaces (Physics)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- The sizes of things -- Light -- Form -- Order -- Change -- Disorder -- Illusion.".
- catalog title "On the surface of things : images of the extraordinary in science / Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides.".
- catalog type "Pictorial works. fast".
- catalog type "text".