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
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Pages: 320
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Pages In File: 320
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Language: English
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Topic: 178
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Identifier: 1465482482,9781465482488
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Toc: CONTENTS......Page 4 Introduction......Page 6 THE DAWN OF SCIENCE 650 BCE–1450......Page 9 Thales......Page 10 Aristotle......Page 14 Archimedes......Page 18 Zhang Heng......Page 22 Galen......Page 24 Hypatia......Page 30 Al-Khwarizmi......Page 34 Hildegard of Bingen......Page 37 Directory......Page 38 2 SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION 1450–1650......Page 41 Leonardo da Vinci......Page 42 Nicolaus Copernicus......Page 46 Galileo Galilei......Page 50 Johannes Kepler......Page 56 William Harvey......Page 60 Directory......Page 62 3 REASON AND ENLIGHTENMENT 1650–1800......Page 65 Robert Boyle......Page 66 Robert Hooke......Page 70 Isaac Newton......Page 76 Benjamin Franklin......Page 82 Carl Linnaeus......Page 86 James Hutton......Page 92 Henry Cavendish......Page 94 William Herschel......Page 98 Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier......Page 100 Alessandro Volta......Page 104 Edward Jenner......Page 106 John Dalton......Page 110 Georges Cuvier......Page 114 Directory......Page 118 4 SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY 1800–1895......Page 121 Michael Faraday......Page 122 Charles Babbage......Page 126 Ada Lovelace......Page 130 Charles Darwin......Page 132 James Prescott Joule......Page 138 Gregor Mendel......Page 140 Louis Pasteur......Page 144 James Clerk Maxwell......Page 148 Dmitri Mendeleev......Page 152 Alexander Graham Bell......Page 158 Directory......Page 160 5 PARADIGM SHIFTS 1895–1925......Page 163 Santiago Ramón y Cajal......Page 164 Max Planck......Page 168 Nettie Stevens......Page 174 George Washington Carver......Page 176 Thomas Hunt Morgan......Page 178 Marie Curie......Page 182 Ernest Rutherford......Page 186 António Egas Moniz......Page 192 Lise Meitner......Page 194 Albert Einstein......Page 198 Alfred Wegener......Page 204 Directory......Page 208 6 WAR AND MODERNITY 1925–1950......Page 211 Alexander Fleming......Page 212 Emmy Noether......Page 216 Inge Lehmann......Page 217 C. V. Raman......Page 218 Edwin Hubble......Page 220 Frederick Banting......Page 224 Alice Ball......Page 225 Wallace Carothers......Page 226 Percy Julian......Page 228<