Paths of Discovery
Plenary Session 5-8 November 2004
Acta 18
Vatican City, 2006
pp. LXVIII-299
ISBN 88-7761-088-3
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Different Types of Discovery Lessons from the History of Science (PDF)
Jürgen Mittelstrass
Discovery in the New Cosmology of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo (PDF)
George V. Coyne, S.J.
The Discovery of Extrasolar Planets (PDF)
Pierre Léna
Going from Quarks to Galaxies: Two Findings (PDF)
Rudolf Muradian
Paths of Discovery: Personal Experiences in a Social Science (PDF)
Bernardo M. Colombo
On a Discovery about Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem (PDF)
Stanley L. Jaki
Transient Phenomena in Quantum Mechanics: Diffraction in Time (PDF)
Marcos Moshinsky
Optical Methods. A Simple Way to Interrogate and to Manipulate Atoms (PDF)
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
Microdiscoveries: A Fractal Story. A Case Study of Creative Paths and Networks in Science (PDF)
Antonio M. Battro
How a Reflexion on the Inspired Nature of the Bible Can Shed Light on Scientific Invention: An Epistemological Approach (PDF)
Jean-Michel Maldamé
The Story of Negative Specific Heat (PDF)
Walter Thirring
From Controversy to Consensus in Cosmology (PDF)
Martin J. Rees
Totally Unexpected Discoveries: A Personal Experience (PDF)
Antonino Zichichi
Discovering the World Structure as a Goal of Physics (PDF)
Michael Heller
Path of Discovery of a Therapeutic Vaccine (PDF)
Michael Sela
The History of Aspirin: The Discoveries that Changed Contemporary Medicine (PDF)
Andrew Szczeklik
The Role of Innovation, Interdisciplinarity and Phenomenology as Components of Creativity in Opening New Windows (PDF)
M.G.K. Menon
The Anthropocene: The Current Human-Dominated Geological Era (PDF)
Paul Josef Crutzen
Discovering the Pathway for Cooling the Brain (PDF)
Robert J. White
The Impact of Microbial Genetics on the Development of Genomics and Biotechnology (PDF)
Werner Arber
Endosymbiotic Bacteria Associated With Plant Seeds and Birds’ Eggs (PDF)
Crodowaldo Pavan
Microbial Biodiversity: A New Voyage of Discovery (PDF)
Rafael Vicuña
Geomagnetism, ‘Vacillation’, Atmospheric Predictability and ‘Deterministic Chaos’ (PDF)
Raymond Hide
Today the World of Tomorrow – The Energy Challenge (PDF)
Carlo Rubbia
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