Promoting the Planck Club: How Defiant Youth, Irreverent Researchers and Liberated Universities Can Foster Prosperity Indefinitely

Promoting the Planck Club presents rich mini histories of selected scientists whose work led to radical and transformational discoveries, their background, the prevailing scientific environment, and the conditions that allowed for their success. The text provides a broad audience of students, scientists, engineers, economists, and policymakers with ways to ensure that we take all steps to protect the flow of unpredictable scientific discoveries that are necessary for sustained levels of growth as well as ways to ensure that all steps are taken to protect the flow of unpredictable scientific discoveries.

Keywords: General Physics, Promoting the Planck Club, Donald W. Braben, Max Planck, Oswald Avery, Francis Crick and James Watson, Harry Kroto, Richard Smalley, Bob Curl, energy quantization, DNA, jumping genes, maser, endosymbiotic associations between smaller cells such as prokaryotes, ATP, molecular biology