128 pages : 29 cm
DK- 100 Scientists Who Made History
β Scribed by DK
- Publisher
- DK Publishing
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 128
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Perceptive pioneers
Aristotle
Greek greats
Pythagoras
Empedocles
Democritus
Euclid
Hypatia
Archimedes
Hippocrates
Zhang Heng
Claudius Galen
Al-KhwΔrizmΔ«
Avicenna
AverroΓ«s
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
FranΓ§oise BarrΓ©-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 Kepler
Christiaan Huygens
Edmond Halley
Henrietta Swan Leavitt
Isaac Newton
James Clerk Maxwell
Ernest Rutherford
Albert Einstein
J Robert Oppenheimer
Penzias and Wilson
Quantum physicists
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 RΓΆntgen
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
Letβs applaud...
Glossary
Index
Acknowledgments
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