| Description |
320 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
1. The dawn of science, 650BCE-1450. Thales ; Aristotle ; Archimedes ; Zhang Heng ; Galen ; Hypatia ; Al-Khwarizmi ; Alhazen ; Hildegard of Bingen ; Directory -- 2. Scientific revolution, 1450-1650. Leonardo da Vinci ; Nicholaus Copernicus ; Galildo Galilei ; Johannes Kepler ; William Harvey ; Directory -- 3. Reason and enlightenment, 1650-1800. Robert Boyle ; Robert Hooke ; Isaac Newton ; Benjamin Franklin ; Carl Linneaus ; James Hutton ; Henry Cavendish ; William Herschel ; Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier ; Alessandro Volta ; Edward Jenner ; John Dalton ; Georges Cuvier ; Directory -- 4. Science and industry, 1800-1895. Michael Faraday ; Charles Babbage ; Ada Lovelace ; Charles Darwin ; James Prescott Joule ; Gregor Mendel ; Louis Pasteur ; James Clerk Maxwell ; Dmitri Mendeleev ; Alexander Graham Bell ; Directory -- 5. Paradigm shifts, 1895-1925. Santiago Ramon y Cajal ; Max Planck ; Nettie Stevens ; George Washington Carver ; Thomas Hunt Morgan ; Marie Curie ; Ernest Rutherford ; Antonio Egas Moniz ; Lise Meitner ; Albert Einstein ; Alfred Wegener ; Directory -- 6. War and modernity, 1925-1950. Alexander Fleming ; Emmy Noether ; Inge Lehmann ; C.V Raman ; Edwin Hubble ; Frederick Banting ; Alice Ball ; Wallace Carothers ; Percy Julian ; Barbara McClintock ; Konrad Lorenz ; J. Robert Oppenheimer ; Severo Ochoa ; Maria Goeppert Mayer ; Grace Hopper ; Hideki Yukawa ; John Bardeen ; Dorothy Hodgkin ; Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar ; Luis Alvarez ; Chien-Shiung Wu ; Alan Turing ; Directory -- 7. Theories of everything, 1950-present. Francis Crick and James Watson ; Rosalind Franklin ; Frederick Sanger ; Richard Feynman ; Henry Strommel ; Yang Chen-Ning ; Benoit Mandelbrot ; Ernest McCullough and James Till ; Tu Youyou ; Jane Goodall ; Valentina Tereshkova ; Patricia Bath ; Stephen Hawking ; Jocelyn Bell Burnell ; Tak Wah Mak ; Tim Berners-Lee ; Directory. |
| Summary |
Scientists Who Changed History profiles trailblazing individuals from Greek mathematicians, such as Archimedes and Hipparchus, through physicists of the early 20th-century, such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, to modern greats such as Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee. Each featured individual has made a major contribution to one or more scientific fields, from astronomy, biology, and psychology, to computer science and geology. Combining elements of biography, history, and analysis, Scientists Who Changed History explains the groundbreaking contributions made by these revolutionary men and women in a clear and informative way"--Amazon. |
| Subject |
Scientists -- Biography.
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Discoveries in science -- History.
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| Genre |
Biographies.
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| Added Author |
Doran, Alethea, author.
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Edwards, Joanna, author.
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Gilbert, Richard (Freelance editor), author.
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Mohun, Janet (Editor), author.
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Pyke, Victoria, author.
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Warren, Penny, author.
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| ISBN |
9781465482488 |
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1465482482 |
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