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Toc: Title page Copyright page Dedication Endorsements List of Posters Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction 1: Accidents, Coincidences, and the Luck of the Draw: How Benjamin Thompson and Humphry Davy Enabled Michael Faraday to Electrify the World 2: Science, Technology, and Economic Growth: Can Their Magical Relationships Be Controlled? 3: Max Planck: A Reluctant Revolutionary with a Hunger of the Soul 4: The Golden Age of Physics Joseph John Thomson Ernest Rutherford Niels Bohr Wolfgang Ernst Pauli Werner Heisenberg Conclusions 5: Oswald T. Avery: A Modest Diminutive Introverted Scientific Heavyweight 6: Barbara McClintock (1902–1992): A Patient, Integrating, Maverick Interpreter of Living Systems 7: Charles Townes: A Meticulously Careful Scientific Adventurer 8: Carl Woese: A Staunch Advocate for Classical Biology 9: Peter Mitchell: A High-Minded Creative and Courageous Bioenerg