100 scientists who made history : remarkable scientists who shaped our world /: remarkable scientists who shaped our world. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: One hundred scientists who made history
• Further Information: Note: Written by Andrea Mills and Stella Caldwell ; consultant, Philip Parker.
• Authors: Mills, Andrea; Caldwell, S. A (Stella A.)
• Other Names: Parker, Philip 1965- consultant.
• Contents: PERCEPTIVE PIONEERS: -- Aristotle -- Greek greats -- Pythagoras; Empedocles; Democritus; Euclid; Hypatia -- Archimedes -- Hippocrates -- Zhang Heng -- Claudius Galen -- Al-Khwarizmi -- Avicenna -- Averroes -- Fibonacci -- Francis Bacon -- BRILLIANT BIOLOGISTS: -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Mary Anning -- Seeing things -- Alhazen; Roger Bacon; Willebrord Snell; Antonie van Leeuwenhoek; Patricia Bath -- Robert Hooke -- Carl Linnaeus -- Charles Darwin -- Gregor Mendel -- Nettie Stevens -- Thomas Hunt Morgan -- Alexander Fleming -- Franklin, Crick, and Watson -- Inge Lehmann -- James Lovelock -- Charles David Keeling -- Medical masterminds -- Edward Jenner; Jonas Salk; Paul Ehrlich; Francoise Barre-Sinoussi; Joshua Lederberg -- CLEVER CHEMISTS: -- Robert Boyle -- Joseph Black -- Joseph Priestley -- Alessandro Volta -- Michael Faraday -- Louis Pasteur -- Dmitri Mendeleev -- Inventive chemists -- Charles Goodyear; Leo Baekeland; Percy Julian; Stephanie Kwolek; George William Gray -- The Curies -- Alice Ball -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Barbara McClintock -- PHENOMENAL PHYSICISTS: -- Leonardo da Vinci -- Nicolaus Copernicus -- Galileo Galilei -- Johannes Keppler -- Christiaan Huygens -- Edmond Halley -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt -- Isaac Newton -- James Clerk Maxwell -- Ernest Rutherford -- Albert Einstein -- J Robert Oppenheimer -- Penzias and Wilson -- Quantum phsyicists -- James Chadwick; Werner Heisenberg; Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar; Richard Feynman; Peter Higgs -- Edwin Hubble -- Vera Rubin -- Stephen Hawking -- INCREDIBLE INNOVATORS: -- James Watt -- Rudolf Diesel -- Computing creatives -- Ada Lovelace; Grace Murray Hopper; John von Neumann; Annie Easley; Tim Berners-Lee -- Wilhelm Rontgen -- C V Raman -- Nikola Tesla -- Joseph Lister -- Alan Turing -- Alfred Nobel -- Ali Javan -- Rachel Carson -- Communicators -- David Attenborough; Carl Sagan; Dava Sobel; Bill Nye; Neil deGrasse Tyson -- Let's applaud ... -- Glossary -- Index -- Acknowledgements
• Publisher Details: London : DK Children
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource (128 pages)
• Subjects: 509.22; Scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature; Scientists -- Biography; Mathematicians -- Biography; Mathematicians -- Biography; Scientists -- Biography; Scientists -- History -- Juvenile literature; Scientists -- Biography; Mathematicians; Scientists; Biographies; Juvenile works; Biographies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780241480403
• Related ISBNs: 024148040X
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