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NATURE NOT MOCKED Places, People and Science CONTENTS FRONT MATTER Peter Day i PART I TEMPLES OF SCIENCE TEMPLES OF SCIENCE 1 The Royal Institution: Then and Now Peter Day 3 Conversation Rooms Peter Day 45 The Institut Laue-Langevin: A Crucible of European Sciences Peter Day 58 PART 2 SOME PAST MASTERS SOME PAST MASTERS 77 Count Rumford's European Travels Peter Day 79 Humphry Davy's Quest for Research Funding Peter Day 96 Michael Faraday as a Materials Scientist Peter Day 105 PART 3 SOME FOLKS YOU MEET SOME FOLKS YOU MEET 113 Christian Klixbull Jørgensen (1931–2001) Peter Day 115 Olivier Kahn (1943–1999) Peter Day 141 Fred Dainton: Scientist and Public Servant Peter Day 151 PART 4 MOLECULES, SOLIDS AND PROPERTIES MOLECULES, SOLIDS AND PROPERTIES 155 Magnets from Molecules Peter Day 158 Mixed-Valence Compounds Peter Day 175 Superconductors Past, Present, and Future Peter Day 188 Room at the Bottom Peter Day 209 Molecular Information Processing: Will It Happen? Peter Day 216 Connecting Atoms with Words Peter Day 237 EPILOGUE Peter Day 247 BACK MATTER Peter Day 255 Back

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