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Chandra is an intimate portrait of a highly private and brilliant man, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, a Nobel laureate in physics who has been a major contributor to the theories of white dwarfs and black holes.
"Wali has given us a magnificent portrait of Chandra, full of life and color, with a deep understanding of the three cultures—Indian, British, and American—in which Chandra was successively immersed. . . . I wish I had the job of reviewing this book for the New York Times rather than for Physics Today. If the book is only read by physicists, then Wali's devoted labors were in vain."—Freeman Dyson, Physics Today
"An enthralling human document."—William McCrea, Times Higher Education Supplement
"A dramatic, exuberant biography of one of the century's great scientists."—Publishers Weekly
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One of the Great Tamil Scientists.......2006-04-28
This book "Chandra" is a biography of Chandrasekhar, who is one of the most inspiring and fascinating scientists of Tamil Nadu, India and most certainly a famous scientists in the world.
Chandrasekhar was famously called by friends and colleagues as Chandra. Dr.Chandrasekar is a cousin of Sir C.V.Raman who is also a nobel laureate (Raman effect). Nice to have a uncle in the family as a nobel lauraete to follow his footsteps.
Both these scientists and the mathematics genius Ramanujam about whom I will review in a separate book review after the current book review, these there scientists are my all time admirable scientits from Tamil Nadu, India. While Raman and Chandra was genius scientists in physical sciences, Ramanujan was a genius of genius in mathematics.............
Anyways, let me get to Chandra and his biography, this book was written extremely well by a Physics professor Kameswar Wali.........................................
UNDER CONSTRUCTION....I am still workin on it...............come back later...
Profoundly moving.......2005-04-21
This is a story that begs to be recounted. A brilliant and shy young scholar from a conservative S.Indian family wins a scholarship to study Physics at Cambridge. He spends the few weeks at sea en route to England working on the Physics of stellar collapse. His results puzzle even the eminent theorists of his day, Eddington among them. Undaunted by his detractors, trying to adapt to an alien culture with its cold winters and bland, non-vegetarian cuisine, the young scientist plugs on convinced that his calculations are correct. Eventually, the much older Chandrasekhar gains international renown for his work and is honored with the Nobel Prize for Physics.
The book is, overall, a chronicle of a great man's journey. He gains in stature and experience, but his fundamental character remains the same. Over and over we are given the same impression of Dr.Chandrasekhar by those who knew him as family, friend and/ or colleague. He is portrayed as dedicated to his work, dignified, disciplined in all aspects of his life, holding himself and the others around him to the utmost high standards.
The books is more about the man, than about his work. Of course, his life cannot be portrayed without referencing his work. Wali frequently alludes to it but only as a backdrop to the various stages and incidents of the scientist's life. Wali's goal is to capture the essence of the man, and he has done so admirably.
Inspiring.......2002-12-15
A must read for any aspiring scientist in any branch of the sciences -- not just astronomy or physics. The book starts with a detailed account of his childhood and sheds light on Chandra's ancestry. Wali reveals the scientist in himself by paying great attention to every detail, and reveals to us the foundations of a genius in the making. An enlightening tale with very little scientific mumbo-jumbo but oodles of history. The book provides insight into the young Chandra's brilliance, and recounts a wizened Chandra navigating the high seas of politics in academia. As a countryman, I am enlightened and inspired.
A great book on the life of an extraordinary scientist.......1999-02-27
Here is an account of the life of one of the legendary scientific figures of the 20th century. Chandra has often been compared with Lord Rayleigh and Poincare, emphasizing not just the manner in which he conducted research but also that he was a part of the same classical tradition. However, he was a person so private that very little of his life or his work is known outside of the scientific community. The book serves to remedy this. It is also worth reading because of Chandra's connection with names that have now passed into history: Hardy, Rutherford, Dirac, Bohr, Eddington, Raman, Heisenberg, Sommerfield, and even Ramanujan. The tales and connections are a fascinating read. I specially recommend the chapter on his wife Lalitha, a remarkable woman from a remarkable family. Wali's portrayal is both sensitive and revealing. His aim is clear, namely to bring to the public eye a man noted for his reticence and extreme privacy. Don't miss reading this book.
Chandra: The Man who shed a lot of light on Black Holes.......1997-08-06
The book is an excellent document of Chandra's personal and professional life. It is the only such work available on the Astrophysicist. It could have been made a very interesting read, if it included a technical exposition(At least a Layman's version) of Chandra's work on White dwarf's, Black Holes, Chandra's own analysis of Newton's Principia and more. I mean a book on the lines of Robert Kanigel's "The Man who knew Infinity" which is about the Mathematician S. Ramanujan. I thought the author(who is a physics educator himself) who took so much of pains wandering in the undergrowth of Chandra's Lifestyle did not plough enough into his scientific theories, which would have made the book a great hit. But it does reveal a lot about Chandra's interaction with heavyweights such as Paul Dirac, Eddington, Pauli, Bohr, Born, Russel, John Von Neumann, Novikov, Stromgren and a host of others. I thought the research done in these parts were first rate. On the whole I enjoyed reading the book very much
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Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar - known simply as Chandra throughout the scientific world - has become a legendary figure for his prolific contributions to physics, astrophysics, and applied mathematics. Before his death in 1995, Chandra had forbidden a memorial of the conventional sort, celebrating his life. This book, which contains some thirty articles by his former students, his associates, and his colleagues, is in a sense a memorial volume. It says little about Chandra's great scientific achievements, but shows his human side and the various facets of his brilliant personality, his incredible memory, his wit, and the breadth of his knowledge of art, music, literature, and the humanities in general. The contributors to this highly interesting book are among the few who broke the seemingly forbidden barrier surrounding the very private Chandra and came to know him well in one context or another. They include Lalitha Chandrasekhar, Roger Penrose, Richard H Dalitz, J W Cronin, Robert G Sachs, Abhay Ashtekar, and Robert Wald.
"Not a biography, this, but an album of verbal portraits of an austere, proud, cultured and deeply humane astrophysicist."
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AMAZING BOOK...........2006-11-04
I found this book to be really inspirational. People in the scientific world must read a book of this kind "How all the people saw CHANDRA as a human being from close quarters than a big scientist inside him". I have referred this book to so many already and here is again a chance for the same.
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Great Book very informative........2007-10-06
I am halfway reading thru the book and I must say this book dead on in its presentation of life "maladies". I have been one the skeptics before in this touted back surgeries for pain with no organ function deficits. Working in health care industry, I have seen people having back surgeries without any relief from pain. And to the extreme I know a person who had multiple back surgery in the 80's due to pain as his orthopedic doctor found "anomaly" in his back bone. He was told he may not walk again if he don't undergo back surgery. Well... he had the back surgery and he never walked again -- got paralysis of legs DUE TO surgery. Some of us will this this argument disconcerting as it is contrary to what we have been hearing all this time in media releases. I am even impressed about his assessment on those new pain medications, Vioxx, Bextra purported to be the next generation pain killer and safer than aspirin. He wrote in the book about the inconsistencies of study brought about by the vested interest of pharmaceutical company and the researcher conducting having ties to these companies. He wrote his suspicions on the safety of these drugs based (on deaths of participants) on the complete study versus the published copies in magazines and even in the medical journals. And he wrote this book before the Bextra and Vioxx were recalled from the market. In this book he never argued that we need don't need to go to physician, in fact he argues that we need to. So he arms us with knowledge to ask the right questions and discussions. That not every visit to the physician's office ends up in pharmaceutical prescription. Talk about coping might be a powerful precription
How to Avoid Getting Trapped into Health Care You Do Not Need.......2007-07-08
This book has lots of great information to dispell the medical myths that more health care is always better. This book may save you from heart surgery you do not need, or from taking drugs that are more likely to harm than to help. It is an update on Medical Nemesis filled my data. My only criticism is that the reading is sometimes tedious. This author would do well to have the help of a medical writer who is used to engaging the public. I'm a physician and I found it tough sledding at times.
Provokes a lot of thought.......2006-12-21
As a well person as enjoyed thinking of the issues addressed in the book. I spent a lot of time confirming Dr Hadler's assertions and found them to be surprising but true. Also learned many new words.
Does Well Enough.......2006-09-02
This book attempts to arm the reader against the medical establishment's growing insistence that we are all likely to be diseased and that we all need to subject ourselves to numerous screenings and treatments to keep us going.
One criticism - Hadlin's writing tends to be rather clotted. The fact that he refers to his work as a "monograph" rather than simply as a "book" is a good example of this galumphing tone. A more individual perspective and a friendlier bedside manner would have served the reader better.
I realize that might have been just the sort of tone Dr. Hadler was hoping to avoid because it would smack too much of the "anecdotal." And anecdotal is anathema to writers wanting to impress readers with the objective, strictly scientific nature of their report. A major theme of this book is, after all, the idea that research/evaluation should be conducted with strict objectivity, apart from any considerations of personal gain. Researchers shouldn't be swayed by the thought of future payments they might receive from pharmaceutical companies if they find a drug effective, or by the prospect of hospital/career advancement if they find that an invasive procedure "saves lives."
Still, I think it would have been valuable to put more of a human face on the vast waste of time, money, and energy that most medical intervention tends to be. I was hoping the book would trace the course that iatrogenesis tends to follow - the course of small bureaucratic bungles, overlooked details, and indifferences. To get a broader philosophical sense of this waste, I recommend the controversial, but enlightening "Confessions of a Medical Heretic" by Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, and "Medical Nemesis" by Ivan Illich.
However, Dr. Hadlin is better than those preceeding books at exposing the fallacies of many medical statistics. His best chapters alert one to the questionable statistical methods used to back claims for the efficacy of new medicines and treatments. For example, he points out the difference between relative improvement in outcome (cited by most sales pitches), and absolute improvement (rarely mentioned). If 200 people are enrolled to test a new medicine (100 of whom receive the new medicine and 100 of whom are in the control group receiving a placebo) - 4 people may die in the control group of the condition the medicine is supposed to correct - and only 2 may die in the group given the actual medicine. In that case, the medicine will be heralded by its manufacturers as having reduced mortality by a whopping 50% (from 4 to 2). But that's the relative reduction in mortality. Only an absolute number of 2 people have been saved.
That might still make the medicine seem very worthwhile. However, Hadler goes on to point out that the statistics often obscure the fact that those two "saved" people may have suffered severe side effects and/or died soon anyway of some condition other than the one that the medicine presumably treated.
If you want to read a more accessible, lively explanation of the pitfalls of putting your trust in quoted medical statistics - I recommend Marilyn vos Savant's book of collected magazine columns, "The Power of Logical Thinking."
Finally, Hadler launches off with the proviso that his counsel to refuse or be skeptical of many treatments is applicable only to those who are currently "well." However, most people submit themselves to screenings in the first place precisely in order to determine whether they are well or not. So like the book's title, this initial proviso is only confusing and circular.
However, these faults aside, I still found the book valuable enough to add to my permanent reference collection. And if I should be faced with a Doctor's insistence that I take a certain medicine or have a certain procedure - I'll consult the book before making my decision.
Frustrating mix of wisdom and dogma.......2006-06-29
There appears to be a large discrepancy between how effective most people think modern medical practices are and the evidence that experts have presented suggesting that it
does very little to extend life. This book gives the impression of describing a pattern of ineffective or harmful practices that might be offsetting the benefits of the practices that are known to work. But there are enough flaws in his argument that I can't decide how much of his conclusions I should accept.
He starts by saying he's a Popperian, but often acts like he's following some other, more dogmatic, philosophy. I'm particularly annoyed at his certain feelings of inevitability that we will die by about age 85:
I am aware of no data to support the premise that we can alter the date of death. ... When high-functioning octogenarians decline, it is because their time is approaching.
He starts by making a plausible claim that many people get cardiovascular surgery when there's no evidence that it will benefit them (and is likely to create some risks).
But starting in the next chapter it becomes easy to find flaws in his arguments. He raises some plausible doubts about the evidence for statins, but then tries to imply that if the imperfect evidence that's available shows that less than 2% of people who are prescribed statins will benefit, then we should doubt that those people ought to take statins.
He presents evidence that prostate cancer treatments save fewer lives than is commonly thought. It appears that sometimes the treatment merely changes the cause of death to something else. Yet he concludes that the treatment is useless, when the data he presents indicate nontrivial benefits. He hints that the evidence doesn't meet the usual standard of statistical significance, but feels comfortable concluding (without even saying how close it is to being statistically significant) that the lack of proof is strong evidence of ineffectiveness.
He has a somewhat interesting proposal that the final phase of drug testing be done by the FDA rather than by drug companies. If the FDA were run by angels, that would solve a number of problems with the existing regulatory incentives, but with an FDA run by humans it would replace them with new problems. For instance, the choice of which drugs to test is something that only a few special interest voters (i.e. mainly those working for large drug companies) would understand, so their interests would be likely to influence those choices to the benefit of those companies.
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* * * * * Baking gets you Blazed! * * * * *.......2004-07-23
The Marijuana Herbal Cookbook is a completely cool cookbook. Author Tom Flowers explains the reasons to cook, and how eating is different from smoking. He also advises on dosage and the treatment of an overdose, something I'm sure is handy to know. If you lack the knowledge of how to prep pot before you cook with it, this book will be of help to you. My all-time favorite thing about this book however is the plethora of recipes for every type of food (There is also a section on using marijuana medically with many more recipes to follow.), including desert. The stony hemp carrot cake sure does sound good about now.
Seized by Australian Customs.......2004-04-29
I purchased this book and it was seized by Australian Customs under subsection 203B(2) of the Customs Act 1901.
Specifically, the Customs officer wrote that "Pursuant to Regulation 4A(1A)(d) of the Australian Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations the items are prohibited imports and are therefore forfeited under section 229(1)(b) of the Australian Customs Act 1901".
I hope the Customs officer is enjoying these herbal recipes.
it is good.......1999-07-01
this book has some good recipies, although the recipie to make marijuana butter is inaccurate. the book states that you must let the butter mixture simmer for 2 1/2 hours, but I believe, the potency is 10+ stronger if you let the mixture simmer for 24-48 hours. Also, it is always a good thing to add some buds in with the leaf.
Hard to swallow.......1999-02-21
Nice to read but the final product will taste really bad. All the reciepts look good on paper but when recreated are just terrible. nothing but complaints. Maybe Mr. Flowers should stick to growing tips.
Stone The Crows...What A Book..........1998-12-15
I first bought this book in Sydney (yeh as in 2000 olympic games Sydney)cost me about $20 odd dollars and on the way back to Adelaide (some 1,800ks away)i sat in a greyhound reading it. When i first got the book, i though 'very thin book' but hey what this book contained made me wish the bus driver would get his finger out and get me back to South Australia so i could get stuck into some green cooking...Look if you want a cook book with a difference this is it, cookies, hash cakes, cannabis stew, bud pie, even (god bless his little cooking fingers)hash coffee, cannabis milkshakes, i mean the list just goes on...Look its a very thin book, but what you get for your money, you can cook up a storm (or should that be cyclone as we say here in Australia)enough to have you ripped all year long...Thanx Tom you have done it again...
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