The Bluffer's Guide® to Science; Bluff Your Way® in Science

by Brian Malpass

• ISBN13: 9781903096680
• ISBN10: 1903096685
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2006-07-01
• Publisher: Oval Books
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Summary

Be an instant expert on science and bluff your way Z99 all those who profess to know about the subject No experimenting required just a sense of humor From the Standard Model to the Twaddel and from atoms to ohms The Bluffers Guide. to Scie

Author Biography

After spending a large chunk of his childhood in an involuntary study of the tuberculosis bacillus, Brian Malpass wound up at Birmingham University with a First in Chemistry and a Doctorate. When asked what he wrote his thesis on, he replies truthfully, 'Fag packets mostly'. He did in fact make a living as a polymer chemist before drifting into surface science and thence into the management of science and technology. After that, by a series of unplanned sideways and upward lurches, he staggered into finance and ultimately general management of a large public company. He now seems to have embarked on yet another career as a writer, watched spellbound by his wife, a fellow lapsed chemist, and their two grown-up daughters -- who have turned out remarkably well in the circumstances.