{"product_id":"exceptional-creativity-in-science-and-technology-individuals-institutions-and-innovations-9781599474267","title":"Exceptional Creativity in Science and Technology:","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the evolution of science and technology, laws governing exceptional creativity and innovation have yet to be discovered. In his influential study \u003ci\u003eThe Structure of Scientific Revolutions\u003c\/i\u003e, the historian Thomas Kuhn noted that the final stage in a scientific breakthrough such as Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity—the most crucial step—was “inscrutable.” The same is still true half a century later.     Yet, there has been considerable progress in understanding many stages and facets of exceptional creativity and innovation. In \u003ci\u003eExceptional Creativity in Science and Technology,\u003c\/i\u003e editor Andrew Robinson gathers diverse contributors to explore this progress. This new collection arises from a symposium with the same title held at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton. Organized by the John Templeton Foundation, the symposium had the late distinguished doctor and geneticist Baruch S. Blumberg as its chair. At the same time, its IAS host was the well-known physicist Freeman J. Dyson—both of whom have contributed chapters to the book. In addition to scientists, engineers, and an inventor, the book’s fifteen contributors include an economist, entrepreneurs, historians, and sociologists, all working at leading institutions, including Bell Laboratories, Microsoft Research, Oxford University, Princeton University, and Stanford University. Each contributor brings a unique perspective to the relationships between exceptional scientific creativity and innovation by individuals and institutions.     The diverse list of disciplines covered, the high-profile contributors (including two Nobel laureates), and their fascinating insights into this overarching question—\u003ci\u003ehow exactly do we make breakthroughs?—\u003c\/i\u003ewill make this collection of interest to anyone involved with the creative process in any context. Still, it will especially appeal to readers in scientific and technological fields.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Following a series of outstanding books on various aspects of the history of science, Andrew Robinson has now edited a fascinating work which explores the origins of some of the greatest scientific institutions in the world and their innovations which have changed all our lives and had a remarkable effect in boosting the economies of the countries in which they were developed.  While this fascinating story of the complex evolution of great science and its institutions will be of particular interest to the scientific community, given their great importance to all of us for the future it should attract a much broader audience in particular representing education, commerce, and politics.  I wish it all the success that it deserves.\"  —Sir David Weatherall, FRS, Regius Professor of Medicine Emeritus, Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Andrew Robinson \/ 3\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: The Rise and Decline of Hegemonic Systems of Scientific Creativity\u003cbr\u003e J. Rogers Hollingsworth and David M. Gear \/ 25\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Exceptional Creativity in Physics: Two Case Studies—Niels Bohr’s Copenhagen Institute and Enrico Fermi’s Rome Institute\u003cbr\u003e Gino Segrè \/ 53\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Physics at Bell Labs, 1949–1984: Young Turks and Younger Turks\u003cbr\u003e Philip W. Anderson \/ 71\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge: The Physical Realization of an Electronic\u003cbr\u003e Computing Instrument at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1930–1958\u003cbr\u003e George Dyson \/ 83\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Education and Exceptional Creativity: The Decoding of DNA and the\u003cbr\u003e Decipherment of Linear B\u003cbr\u003e Andrew Robinson \/ 99\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Sources of Modern Engineering Innovation\u003cbr\u003e David P. Billington and David P. Billington Jr.  \/ 123\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Technically Creative Environments\u003cbr\u003e Susan Hackwood \/ 145\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Entrepreneurial Creativity\u003cbr\u003e Timothy F. Bresnahan \/ 163\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Scientific Breakthroughs and Breakthrough Products: Creative Activity as Technology Turns into Applications\u003cbr\u003e Tony Hey and Jonathan Hey \/ 191\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: A Billion Fresh Pairs of Eyes: The Creation of Self-Adjustable Eyeglasses\u003cbr\u003e Joshua Silver \/ 211\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: New Ideas from High Platforms: Multigenerational Creativity at NASA\u003cbr\u003e Baruch S. Blumberg \/ 227\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: From Michael Faraday to Steve Jobs\u003cbr\u003e Freeman Dyson \/ 241\u003cbr\u003e Contributors \/ 251\u003cbr\u003e Index \/ 255","brand":"Templeton Foundation Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041583268183,"sku":"9781599474267","price":34.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781599474267.jpg?v=1750950883","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/exceptional-creativity-in-science-and-technology-individuals-institutions-and-innovations-9781599474267","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}