Scientists

An Epic of Discovery

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvNaomi Pasachoff,Jay Pasachoff,Robert Iliffe,Frank A.J.L. James,Jordi Cat,Patrick Moore,Martin Rudwick,Laura Dassow Walls,Roger McCoy,Michael Hunter,Jean-Pierre Poirier,Alan Rocke,Nathan Brooks,Georgina Ferry,Virendra Singh,Frank Close,Andrew Whitaker,Robert Paradowski,Andrew Robinson

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This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers of science – from Galileo and Newton, Faraday and Darwin, Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud, Turing, and Crick and Watson. A series of seventy articles, written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians of science and science writers, provides an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time. Organized thematically, starting at the ‘Universe’, and moving smaller through the ‘Earth’ and ‘Molecules and Matter’ to ‘Inside the Atom’, with the final two sections looking at ‘Life’ and ‘Body and Mind’, it covers all the major scientific disciplines, including astronomy, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, computing, ecology, geology, medicine, neurology, physics and psychology, as well as mathematics. The Scientists will intrigue budding scientists, those fascinated by the lives of great individuals, and anyone curious to know how over the centuries we came to understand the physical world around us and inside us.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2012-09-17
Mått188 x 246 x 43 mm
Vikt1 158 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor304
FörlagThames & Hudson Ltd
ISBN9780500251911

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Andrew Robinson is the author of twenty-five books in the arts and sciences, nine of them on aspects of Indian history and culture. They include two definitive biographies: Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye, described by V. S. Naipaul as ‘an extraordinarily good, detailed and selfless book’, and the coauthored Rabindranath Tagore: The Myriad-Minded Man. He holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has been a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Universe: Nicolaus Copernicus • Johannes Kepler • Galileo Galilei • Isaac Newton • Michael Faraday • James Clerk Maxwell • Albert Einstein • Edwin Powell Hubble • Earth: James Hutton • Charles Lyell • Alexander von Humboldt • Alfred Wegener • Molecules and Matter: Robert Boyle • Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier • John Dalton • Dmitri Mendeleev • August Kekulé • Dorothy Crowfoot • Hodgkin Chandrasekhara • Venkata Raman • Inside the Atom: Marie Curie and Pierre Curie • Ernest Rutherford • Niels Bohr • Linus Carl Pauling • Enrico Fermi • Hideki Yukawa • Life: Carl Linnaeus • Jan IngenHousz • Charles Darwin • Gregor Mendel • Jan Purkinje • Santiago Ramón y Cajal • Francis Crick and James Watson • Body and Mind: Andreas Vesalius • William Harvey • Louis Pasteur • Francis Galton • Sigmund Freud • Alan Turing • John von Neumann • Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey