Makers of science /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2002]
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Table of Contents:
- VOLUME 1: Aristotle / 384 BC - 322 BC
- Nicolaus Copernicus / 1473-1543
- Galileo Galilei / 1564-1642
- Johannes Kepler / William Harvey / 1578-1657
- Isaac Newton / 1642-1727
- Carolus Linnaeus / 1707-1778
- Antoine Lavoisier / 1743-1794
- VOLUME 2: James Watt / 1736-1819
- Edward Jenner / 1749-1823
- Alexander von Humboldt / 1769-1859
- Michael Faraday / 1791-1867
- Charles Darwin / 1809-1882
- Charles Babbage & Ada Lovelace / 1792-1871, 1815-1852
- Louis Pasteur / 1822-1895
- Gregor Mendel / 1822-1884
- VOLUME 3: Dmitri Mendeleev / 1834-1907
- Thomas Alva Edison / 1847-1931
- Alexander Graham Bell / 1847-1922
- Marie & Pierre Curie / 1867-1934, 1859-1906
- Fritz Haber / 1868-1934
- Albert Einsten / 1879-1955
- Alfred Wegener / 1880-1930
- Alexander Fleming / 1881-1955
- VOLUME 4: Niels Bohr & Werner Heisenberg / 1885-1962, 1901-1976
- Edwin Hubble / 1889-1953
- Linus Pauling / 1901-1994
- Barbara McClintock / 1902-1992
- Louis, Mary, and Richard Leakey / 1903-1972, 1913-1996, 1944-present
- Julius Robert Oppenheimer / 1904-1967
- Melvin Calvin / 1911-1997
- Alan Turing / 1912-1954
- Jonas Salk / 1914-1995
- Gertrude Belle Elion / 1918-1999
- VOLUME 5: Richard Feynman / 1918-1988
- Francis Crick, Rosalind Franklin, & James Watson / 1916-present, 1920-1958, 1928-present
- Stephen Hawking / 1942-present.