The study of capillarity is in the midst of a veritable explosion. What is offered here is not a comprehensive review of the latest research but rather a compendium of principles designed for the undergraduate student and for readers interested in the physics underlying these phenomena.

Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena: Drops, Bubbles, Pearls, Waves

Science & Math

de Gennes, Pierre-Gilles

Brochard-Wyart, Françoise

Quere, David

Chemistry

Springer

Il y a quelques années, Pierre-Gilles de Gennes avait décrit (dans Les Objets fragiles) l'originalité de quelques inventeurs. Le présent livre pourrait, lui, s'intituler "Les Chercheurs fragiles". On y trouve les portraits - sans fard - de quelques scientifiques un peu particuliers. Ici les héros ne sont pas choisis pour leur gloire, mais plutôt pour leur faiblesse. Le tout est un témoignage critique sur certains égarements (heureusement rares) du monde universitaire et du monde industriel : un livre à ne pas mettre entre toutes les mains.

Petit Point

POMMIER

In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories. Most of the characters in this collection are like those in Aesop's fables, but in modern-day research settings. The book provides a critical account of aberrations (fortunately rare) of the scientific community. Many lessons can be drawn from the stories. For the young researcher, this book is like a telescope: for seeing other human beings beyond his or her laboratory. For the administrator, this book is like a microscope: for seeing inside the human beings huge and complex structures. However, like Aesop's fables, you would not offer the book as a gift to anyone other than a close and wise friend.Petit Point is not a book to be devoured in a single sitting. It is one to be savored and reflected upon -- it shows what the world may be like and what we ourselves may become. It is like a mirror -- to be visited from time to time.

PETIT POINT: A CANDID PORTRAIT ON THE ABERRATIONS OF SCIENCE

History & Philosophy

DL Publishing

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