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Hans Christian von Baeyer

Hans Christian von Baeyer is Chancellor Professor of Physics at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia. His essays in Discover, The Sciences, Reader's Digest and The Gettysburg Review have won him several awards, including the 1990 Science Journalism Award of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a 1991 National Magazine Award. He has also written over seventy technical and popular articles.

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Author	Title	Format	Date	Price	ISBN
Hans Christian von Baeyer	Information The New Language of Science	Paperback	04/11/2004	£7.99	9780753817827

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'I was fascinated to learn how topics such as randomness, entropy and logarithms were interwoven. By the end I had a hugely explaned idea of information, the strange compressible stuff that comes out of tangible objects - a DNA molecule, a piano - and then ultimately lodges itself in the brain and into consciousness.'

Jerome Burne

FINANCIAL TIMES (8.11.03)

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