Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers Eight Scientific Rivalries That Changed the World

As George Bernard Shaw said, "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." Like other creative geniuses, scientists have achieved breakthroughs as a result of irrational motives -- notably the desire to best a rival. Revealing how each resulted in extraordinary discoveries, Michael White explores eight all-too-human rivalries over the past four centuries: ISAAC NEWTON vs. GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ ANTOINE LAVOISIER vs. JOSEPH PRIESTLEY CHARLES DARWIN vs. RICHARD OWEN THOMAS EDISON vs. NIKOLA TESLA THE ALLIES vs. THE AXIS POWERS FRACIS CRICK and JAMES WATSON vs. LINUS PAULING vs. ROSALIND FRANKLIN and MAURICE WILKINS THE UNITED STATES vs. THE SOVIET UNION BILL GATES vs. LARRY ELLISONWhite, Michael is the author of 'Acid Tongues and Tranquil Dreamers Eight Scientific Rivalries That Changed the World', published 2002 under ISBN 9780380806133 and ISBN 0380806134.