Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science, Litmus: Short Stories from Modern Science

"Eureka Moments covered in the collection: Jeremiah Horrocks & the transit of Venus, 1639; Dmitri Mendeleev's periodic table, 1869; Joseph Swan's electric light-bulb, 1880; Einstein's special relativity revelation, 1905; Hermann Minkowski's spacetime, 1908; Henrietta Leavitt's period-luminosity relation, 1912; Pavlov's flood and the transmarginal inhibition, 1924; Lise Meitner & the discovery of fission, 1939; Alan Turing's morphogenesis, 1952; Denis Noble and mathematically modeling the heart, 1960; Green florescent protein, 1961; Hamilton's Law and inclusive fitness, 1964; The cosmic microwave background, 1965; HM, Brenda Milner & the hippocampus, 1971; Kary Mullis' polymerase chain reaction, 1983; Giacomo Rizzolatti's mirror neurons, 2003; The discovery and treatment of AIDS, 1981-present."--Publisher website.