Makers of science /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Allaby, Michael
Other Authors: Gjertsen, Derek
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
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.