Life’s Matrix (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Philip Ball
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Science and history of science
- Genres: Nonfiction, Science and technology
- Subjects: Rivers or waterways, Water, Biology or biologists, Physics or physicists, Chemistry or chemists
Philip Ball, formerly an editor at the British scientific journal Nature, is a writer and editor with an academic background in chemistry and physics. He is the author of three previous books about science for general readers: The Self-Made Tapestry: Pattern Formation in Nature (1999), Made to Measure: New Materials for the Twenty-first Century (1997), and Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier (1994).
In his preface to Life’s Matrix: A Biography of Water, Ball outlines his plan for the book in ambitious terms:
I shall...
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