Pages: 170
Binding: Paperback
"This is an
interesting and informative book which attempts, with success, to explain a
diverse range of common everyday natural phenomena but without the need for a
detailed background in science." - Professor Barry Ninham, Emeritus
Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics, ANU Canberra
This book attempts to explain in basic
scientific terms the fundamental cause for many of the properties and behaviour
of liquids, solids and air that we see in our daily lives. We can explain and
so understand many of the phenomena that we observe everyday using some fairly
simple scientific principles developed over many centuries of study of the
properties of natural materials. This book demonstrates that a strong
scientific background is not needed to explain many of the examples we see in
everyday life and in many important industrial processes.
The author was born in Sheffield, Yorkshire.
He obtained his PhD from Imperial College, London just before moving to
Australia in 1978. He has spent most of his academic career at the Australian
National University in Canberra, as Professor of Chemistry, Dean of the Faculty
of Science, Chair, Board of the Faculties and as Deputy Vice-Chancellor
(Education). In 2009, he was appointed the Founding Chief Investigator of the new
National Centre of Excellence in Desalination at Murdoch University, Perth. He
is currently a Professor of Chemistry at the University of New South Wales,
Canberra.
