David E. H. Jones (1938–2017)
Autore di The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes
Sull'Autore
David Edward Hugh Jones was born in Southwark, London, England on April 20, 1938. He received a bachelor's degree and a doctorate in organic chemistry from Imperial College in London. He worked as a spectroscopist for Imperial Chemical Industries and became a research fellow and professor at the mostra altro University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He wrote hundreds of columns about Daedalus, an imaginary inventor, for the journals New Scientist and Nature. He also wrote books of fiction about the character. Some of his books included The Inventions of Daedalus: A Compendium of Plausible Schemes, The Further Inventions of Daedalus, The Aha! Moment: A Scientist's Take on Creativity, and Why Are We Conscious? In 2001, he received an Ig Nobel Prize by the Annals of Improbable Research for his columns. He died from complications of prostate cancer on July 19, 2017 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Opere di David E. H. Jones
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Jones, David Edward Hugh
- Altri nomi
- Daedalus (pseudonym)
- Data di nascita
- 1938-04-20
- Data di morte
- 2017-07-19
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Southwark, London, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
- Istruzione
- Eltham college
Imperial College London (undergraduate|research student|postdoctoral researcher|organic chemistry|1956-1967) - Attività lavorative
- chemist
inventor
spectroscopist
television presenter (Kopf um Kopf|eight years) - Relazioni
- Jones, Peter V. (brother)
- Organizzazioni
- New Scientist (contributor|1964-1988)
Strathclyde University (teacher)
ICI (spectroscopist)
Newcastle University (Chemistry Department|research fellowship|1973)
Nature (contributor|1988-2002)
Guardian (contributor) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Nottingham University (Shaw medal|1996)
Newcastle University (honorary doctorate|1997)
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Recensioni
Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 132
- Popolarità
- #153,555
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 11
- Lingue
- 1
Many of the ideas are impossible or wrong (tying knots in magnetic fields by tying knots in the magnet and then unraveling it, for instance), but that's not the point. The author knows perfectly well that the ideas won't work. The enjoyment comes from thinking through why they would or wouldn't work, and learning to think critically and skeptically, without resorting to the opposite extreme of pseudo-skepticism.
Some of the ideas work perfectly well, as outlandish as they seem, and have actually been built. We skeptics need to be careful not to get in the habit of rejecting things just because they seem too good to be true at first glance.
In the same vein, the author is also known for designing perpetual motion machines and exhibiting them. Of course they are not really perpetual motion machines. The trick is in figuring out how they actually work without any visible power source.… (altro)