Mills,Andrea

100 SCIENTISTS WHO MADE HISTORY Andrea Mills; S A Caldwell - 1 - DK Children - 120

Abstract: Full of the true-life stories of scientists and innovators who have shaped our society and how we see the world around us, this book puts major scientific discoveries into context. Readers learn who inspired whom, and which discoveries laid the groundwork for more amazing innovation.

Contents: Perceptive pioneers -- Brilliant biologists -- Clever chemists -- Phenomenal physicists -- Incredible innovators. Contents: Perceptive pioneers --
1.Aristotle
2.Greek Greats
3.Pythagoras
4.Empedocles
5.Democritus
6.Euclid
7.Hypatia


Brilliant biologists --

1.Hidegard of Bingen
2.Mary Anning
3.Seeing Things
Alhazen
Roger Bacon
Willebrord Snell
Antonie Van
Leeuwenhoek
Patricia Bath

4.Robert Hooke
5.Carl Linnaeus
6.Charles Darwin
7.Gregor Mendel
8.Thomas Hunt Morgan
9.Alexander Fleming
10.Franklin, Crick, and Watson
11.Inge Lehmann
12.James Lovelock
13.Charles David Keeling
14.Medical masterminds

Edward Jenner
Jonas Salk
Paul Ehrlich
Francoise
Barre-Sinoussi
Joshua Lederberg

Clever Chemists

1.Robert Bayle
2..Joseph Black
3.Joseph Priestley
4.Alessandro Volta
5.Michael Faraday
6.Louis Pasteur
7.Dmitri Mendeleev
8.Inventive Chemists

Charles Goodyear
Leo Baekeland
Percy Julian
Stephanie Kwolek
George William Gray

9.The Curies
10.Alice Ball
11.Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
12.Barbara McClintock

Phenomenal Physicists

1.Leonardo da Vinci
2.Nicolaus Copernicus
3.Galileo Galilei
4.Johannes Kepler
5.Christiaan Huygens
6.Edmond Halley
7.Henrietta Swan Leavitt
8.Isaac Newton
9.James Clerk Maxwell
10.Ernest Rutherford
11.Albert Einstein
12.J Robert Oppenheimer
13.Penzias and Wilson
14.Quantum Physicists
James Chaddwick
Werner Heisenberg
Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar
Richard Feynman
Peter Higgs
Edwin Hubble
Vera Rublin
Stephen Hawking

Incredible innovators

1.James Watt
2.Rudolf Diesel
3.Computing Creatives

Ada Lovelace
Grace Murray Hopper
John Van Neumann
Annie Easley
Tim Berners-Lee

4.Wilhelm Rontgen
5.C V Raman
6.Nikola Tesla
7.Joseph Lister
8.Alan Turing
9.Alred Nobel
10.Ali Javan
11.Rachel Carson
12.Communicators

David Atten borough
Carl Sagan
Dava Sobel
Bill Nye
Neil Degrasse Tyson


13.Lets applaud....
14.Glossary
15.Index
16.Acknowledgments



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Scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Scientists -- Biography.
JUVENILE NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Science & Technology.

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