Beschreibung:
Tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. This title features articles that offer an account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.
Universe: Nicolaus Copernicus . Johannes Kepler . Galileo Galilei . Isaac Newton . Michael Faraday . James Clerk Maxwell . Albert Einstein . Edwin Powell Hubble . Earth: James Hutton . Charles Lyell . Alexander von Humboldt . Alfred Wegener . Molecules and Matter: Robert Boyle . Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier . John Dalton . Dmitri Mendeleev . August Kekulé . Dorothy Crowfoot . Hodgkin Chandrasekhara . Venkata Raman . Inside the Atom: Marie Curie and Pierre Curie . Ernest Rutherford . Niels Bohr . Linus Carl Pauling . Enrico Fermi . Hideki Yukawa . Life: Carl Linnaeus . Jan IngenHousz . Charles Darwin . Gregor Mendel . Jan Purkinje . Santiago Ramón y Cajal . Francis Crick and James Watson . Body and Mind: Andreas Vesalius . William Harvey . Louis Pasteur . Francis Galton . Sigmund Freud . Alan Turing . John von Neumann . Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey