The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery

The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery

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

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 304
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 17 Sep 2012

ISBN 10: 0500251916
ISBN 13: 9780500251911
Book Overview: Seventy articles expertly curated by biographer Andrew Robinson to provide an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time

Media Reviews
'The human face of scientific breakthroughs from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries is spotlit in this sumptuously illustrated volume.... a sampler of the driven, complex, fascinating characters who fomented scientific revolutions' - Nature
'This excellent celebration of the evolution of science over the centuries should be of broad interest to scientists and non-scientists alike - it will also be a wonderful stimulus to young people thinking about a career in science' - The Lancet
Author Bio
Andrew Robinson has written more than 25 books on the arts and sciences. They include Lost Languages: The Enigma of the World's Undeciphered Scripts, India: A Short History and Earthshock, which won the Association of Earth Science Editors Outstanding Publication Award, plus Earth-Shattering Events . A regular contributor to such magazines as Current World Archaeology, History Today, The Lancet, Nature and Science, he has also been literary editor of The Times Higher Education Supplement and a visiting fellow at the University of Cambridge.