Scientists Who Changed History

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Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential scientists with this innovative and boldly graphic biography-led book.The second title in DK's new illustrated biography series,Scientists Who Changed Historyprofiles trailblazing individuals from Greek mathematicians, such as Archimedes and Hipparchus, through physicists of the early 20th-century, such as Marie Curie and Albert Einstein, to modern greats such as Stephen Hawking and Tim Berners-Lee.Each featured individual has made a major contribution to one or more scientific fields, from astronomy, biology, and psychology, to computer science and geology.Combining elements of biography, history, and analysis,Scientists Who Changed Historyexplains the groundbreaking contributions made by these revolutionary men and women in a clear and informative way.

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  • Year: 2,019

  • Pages: 320

  • Pages In File: 320

  • Language: English

  • Topic: 178

  • Identifier: 1465482482,9781465482488

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  • Toc: CONTENTS......Page 4Introduction......Page 6THE DAWN OF SCIENCE 650 BCE–1450......Page 9Thales......Page 10Aristotle......Page 14Archimedes......Page 18Zhang Heng......Page 22Galen......Page 24Hypatia......Page 30Al-Khwarizmi......Page 34Hildegard of Bingen......Page 37Directory......Page 382 SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 1450–1650......Page 41Leonardo da Vinci......Page 42Nicolaus Copernicus......Page 46Galileo Galilei......Page 50Johannes Kepler......Page 56William Harvey......Page 60Directory......Page 623 REASON AND ENLIGHTENMENT 1650–1800......Page 65Robert Boyle......Page 66Robert Hooke......Page 70Isaac Newton......Page 76Benjamin Franklin......Page 82Carl Linnaeus......Page 86James Hutton......Page 92Henry Cavendish......Page 94William Herschel......Page 98Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier......Page 100Alessandro Volta......Page 104Edward Jenner......Page 106John Dalton......Page 110Georges Cuvier......Page 114Directory......Page 1184 SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 1800–1895......Page 121Michael Faraday......Page 122Charles Babbage......Page 126Ada Lovelace......Page 130Charles Darwin......Page 132James Prescott Joule......Page 138Gregor Mendel......Page 140Louis Pasteur......Page 144James Clerk Maxwell......Page 148Dmitri Mendeleev......Page 152Alexander Graham Bell......Page 158Directory......Page 1605 PARADIGM SHIFTS 1895–1925......Page 163Santiago Ramón y Cajal......Page 164Max Planck......Page 168Nettie Stevens......Page 174George Washington Carver......Page 176Thomas Hunt Morgan......Page 178Marie Curie......Page 182Ernest Rutherford......Page 186António Egas Moniz......Page 192Lise Meitner......Page 194Albert Einstein......Page 198Alfred Wegener......Page 204Directory......Page 2086 WAR AND MODERNITY 1925–1950......Page 211Alexander Fleming......Page 212Emmy Noether......Page 216Inge Lehmann......Page 217C. V. Raman......Page 218Edwin Hubble......Page 220Frederick Banting......Page 224Alice Ball......Page 225Wallace Carothers......Page 226Percy Julian......Page 228<