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Great Lives from History: Scientists and Science, Second Edition

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Key to Pronunciation


Scientific Method Instruction


Complete List of Contents


Louis Agassiz


Maria Gaetana Agnesi


Georgius Agricola


Alhazen


André-Marie Ampère


Anaxagoras


Carl David Anderson


Mary Anning


Apollonius of Perga


Edward Victor Appleton


Werner Arber


Archimedes


Aristotle


Svante August Arrhenius


John James Audubon


Oswald Theodore Avery


Amedeo Avogadro


Charles Babbage


Karl Ernst von Baer


Johann Jakob Balmer


David Baltimore


Edward Emerson Barnard


Françoise Barré-Sinoussi


Henry Walter Bates


William Bateson


William Maddock Bayliss


George Wells Beadle


Antoine Henri Becquerel


Paul Berg


Claude Bernard


Tim Berners-Lee


Daniel Bernoulli


Jöns Jacob Berzelius


Hans Albrecht Bethe


Jean-Baptiste Biot


J. Michael Bishop


Vilhelm Bjerknes


Joseph Black


Elizabeth Blackburn


David Blackwell


Marietta Blau


Felix Bloch


Johann Elert Bode


Niels Bohr


Ludwig Boltzmann


George Boole


Norman Borlaug


Max Born


Jagadish Chandra Bose


Robert Boyle


William Lawrence Bragg


Sophia Brahe


Wernher von Braun


Sydney Brenner


David Brewster


Percy Williams Bridgman


Louis de Broglie


Johannes Nicolaus Brønsted


Robert Brown


Giordano Bruno


Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon


E. Margaret Burbidge


Jocelyn Bell Burnell


Melvin Calvin


Annie Jump Cannon


Rachel Carson


Giovanni Domenico Cassini


Henry Cavendish


Anders Celsius


James Chadwick


Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar


Emmett Chappelle


Erwin Chargaff


Jacques Charles


Martha Chase


Steven Chu


Albert Claude


Rudolf Clausius


Mildred Cohn


Francis S. Collins


Arthur Holly Compton


Edward Drinker Cope


Nicolaus Copernicus


France Anne Córdova


Carl F. Cori


Gerty Cori


Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis


Charles-Augustin de Coulomb


Jacques-Yves Cousteau


Francis Crick


Marie Curie


Pierre Curie


Georges Cuvier


John Dalton


Raymond Dart


Charles Darwin


Jean Dausset


Richard Dawkins


Peter Debye


Democritus


René Descartes


Diophantus


Paul Dirac


Theodosius Dobzhansky


Christian Doppler


Jennifer Doudna


Mildred S. Dresselhaus


Arthur Stanley Eddington


Paul R. Ehrlich


Albert Einstein


Erasistratus


Eratosthenes of Cyrene


Paul Erdös


Emil Erlenmeyer


Euclid


Eudoxus


Leonhard Euler


Henry Eyring


Hieronymus Fabricius


Johannes Fabricius


Michael Faraday


Anthony Fauci


Richard Feynman


Andrew Z. Fire


Alexander Fleming


Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming


Dian Fossey


Joseph Fourier


Rosalind Franklin


Karl von Frisch


Kenichi Fukui


Volume 2



Biruté Galdikas


Galen (of Pergamum)


Johann Gottfried Galle


Francis Galton


Luigi Galvani


George Gamow


Carl Friedrich Gauss


Margaret Geller


Murray Gell-Mann


Conrad Gesner


Josiah Willard Gibbs


William Gilbert


Kurt Gödel


Maria Goeppert-Mayer


Richard Goldschmidt


Joseph L. Goldstein


Camillo Golgi


Jane Goodall


Stephen Jay Gould


Carol W. Greider


Otto Hahn


J. B. S. Haldane


George Ellery Hale


Edmond Halley


G. H. Hardy


William Harvey


Stephen Hawking


Werner Heisenberg


Jan Baptista van Helmont


Hero of Alexandria


Herophilus


William Herschel


Heinrich Rudolf Hertz


Germain Henri Hess


Harry Hammond Hess


Victor Francis Hess


Elisabeth Hevelius


Peter Higgs


Hipparchus


Hippocrates


Roald Hoffmann


Robert Hofstadter


Robert Hooke


Grace Murray Hopper


Robert E. Horton


Fred Hoyle


Edwin Powell Hubble


Margaret Lindsay Huggins


Alexander von Humboldt


James Hutton


Jan Ingenhousz


Shirley Ann Jackson


Karl Guthe Jansky


J. Hans D. Jensen


Frédéric and Irène Joliot-Curie


James Prescott Joule


Michio Kaku


Hiroo Kanamori


Lord Kelvin


Johannes Kepler


al-Khwarizmi


Gustav Robert Kirchhoff


Felix Klein


Leonard Kleinrock


Andrew H. Knoll


Donald Ervin Knuth


Robert Koch


Hans Adolf Krebs


Gerard Peter Kuiper


Joseph-Louis Lagrange


Jean-Baptiste Lamarck


Lev Davidovich Landau


Karl Landsteiner


Edwin Ray Lankester


Pierre-Simon Laplace


Max von Laue


Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier


Henri Louis Le Chatelier


Louis S. B. Leakey


Mary Leakey


Henrietta Swan Leavitt


Joshua Lederberg


Leon M. Lederman


Antoni van Leeuwenhoek


Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz


Georges Lemaître


Leonardo da Vinci


Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci)


Rita Levi-Montalcini


Edward B. Lewis


Gilbert N. Lewis


Justus von Liebig


Carolus Linnaeus


Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov


Hendrik Lorentz


Konrad Lorenz


Ada Lovelace


Jane X. Luu


Charles Lyell


Ernst Mach


John J. R. Macleod


Lynn Margulis


Robert Marks II


Othniel Charles Marsh


James Clerk Maxwell


Barbara McClintock


Edwin Mattison McMillan


Lise Meitner


Craig Mello


Gregor Mendel


Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev


Albert A. Michelson


Milutin Milankovitch


Stanley Miller


Robert Andrews Millikan


Maria Mitchell


August Ferdinand Möbius


Andrija Mohorovičić


Friedrich Mohs


Mario Molina


Luc Montagnier


Thomas Hunt Morgan


Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley


Hermann Joseph Muller


Kary Mullis


Yoichiro Nambu


John Napier


Louis Néel


Walther Nernst


John von Neumann


Emmy Noether


Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard


Adriana Ocampo Uria


Severo Ochoa


Georg Simon Ohm


Jan Hendrik Oort


J. Robert Oppenheimer


Hans Christian Ørsted


Jeremiah Ostriker


Richard Owen


Volume 3



Blaise Pascal


Wolfgang Pauli


Linus Pauling


Ivan Pavlov


Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin


Max Perutz


Max Planck


Siméon Denis Poisson


Freda Porter


Ludwig Prandtl


Joseph Louis Proust


Pythagoras


Isidor Isaac Rabi


Venkatraman Ramakrishnan


Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman


Srinivasa Ramanujan


Norman F. Ramsey


John Ray


René-Antoine Ferchault de Réaumur


Ellen Swallow Richards


Bernhard Riemann


Ole Christensen Rømer


Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen


F. Sherwood Rowland


Henry Norris Russell


Ernest Rutherford


Johannes Robert Rydberg


Florence R. Sabin


Carl Sagan


Abdus Salam


Frederick Sanger


Matthias Jakob Schleiden


Maarten Schmidt


Erwin Schrödinger


Theodor Schwann


Karl Schwarzschild


Claude Shannon


Carolyn Shoemaker


Eugene M. Shoemaker


George D. Snell


Frederick Soddy


Mary Somerville


Lazzaro Spallanzani


Hans Spemann


Johannes Stark


Ernest Henry Starling


Nicolaus Steno


Donna Strickland


Yellapragada SubbaRow


James B. Sumner


Ivan Sutherland


Jack W. Szostak


Terence Tao


Edward Tatum


Howard Martin Temin


Theophrastus


J. J. Thomson


Samuel C. C. Ting


Clyde W. Tombaugh


Alan Turing


Harold C. Urey


James Van Allen


Harold E. Varmus


J. Craig Venter


Giovanni Battista Venturi


Andreas Vesalius


Rudolf Virchow


Hugo de Vries


Johannes Diderik van der Waals


Alfred Russel Wallace


Warren M. Washington


James D. Watson


Alfred Wegener


Karl Weierstrass


Steven Weinberg


August Weismann


Gladys West


John Archibald Wheeler


Eric F. Wieschaus


Eugene P. Wigner


Maurice Vincent Wilkes


Maurice Wilkins


Edmund Beecher Wilson


Edward Witten


Friedrich Wöhler


Flossie Wong-Staal


Chien-Shiung Wu


Rosalyn Yalow


Shinya Yamanaka


Chen Ning Yang


Ada E. Yonath


Akira Yoshino


Roger Arliner Young


Thomas Young


Tu Youyou


Hideki Yukawa


Pieter Zeeman


Ahmed H. Zewail


Norton David Zinder


Fritz Zwicky


Appendixes



Chronological List of Entries


Timeline


Biographical Directory of Scientists


Nobel Prize Science Laureates


Electronic Resources


Bibliography


Indexes



Category Index


Discoveries and Achievements Index


Geographical Index