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A biographical encyclopedia of scientists and inventors in American film and TV since 1930 / A. Bowdoin Van Riper.
Van Pelt Library PN1995.9.S267 V36 2011
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Annenberg Library - Reference PN1995.9.S267 V36 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Riper, A. Bowdoin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Scientists in motion pictures.
- Scientists on television.
- Inventors in motion pictures.
- Inventors on television.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 323 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2011.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Antiquity through the Enlightenment
- Hippocrates of Kos 3
- Aristotle 5
- Archimedes 8
- Gutenberg, Johan 10
- Da Vinci, Leonardo 12
- Copernicus, Nicholas 17
- Bacon, Francis 19
- Galileo 21
- Digby, Kenelm 26
- Newton, Isaac 28
- Halley, Edmond 34
- Harrison, John 36
- Franklin, Benjamin 40
- Part 2 The Nineteenth Century
- Fulton, Robert 47
- Whitney, Eli 51
- Oersted, Hans Christian 54
- Audubon, John James 56
- Babbage, Charles 59
- Cooper, Peter 61
- Morse, Samuel E B. 63
- Bowie, James 65
- Ericsson, John 67
- De Lesseps, Ferdinand 71
- Darwin, Charles 75
- Lovelace, Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of 80
- Mitchell, Maria 83
- Pasteur, Louis 86
- Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord 91
- Nobel, Alfred 96
- Crapper, Thomas 99
- Langley, Samuel P. 101
- Powell, John Wesley 103
- Newcomb, Simon 108
- Holland, John Philip 110
- Bell, Alexander Graham 112
- Edison, Thomas 123
- Ehrlich, Paul 135
- Part 3 The Twentieth Century to 1945
- Freud, Sigmund 143
- Tesla, Nikola 149
- Ford, Henry 155
- Carver, George Washington 159
- Curie, Marie Sklodowska 163
- Wright, Wilbur and Orville 173
- Adler, Alfred 182
- Carter, Howard 184
- Marconi, Guglielmo 187
- Jung, Carl Gustav 189
- Kroeber, Alfred 191
- Einstein, Albert 193
- Kenny, Elizabeth 203
- Goddard, Robert H. 207
- Malinowski, Bronislaw 210
- Fokker, Anthony 214
- Kinsey, Alfred 218
- Momsen, Charles Bowers "Swede" 223
- Blalock, Alfred 227
- Williams, David Marshall 231
- Part 4 The Twentieth Century after 1945
- Tucker, Preston 235
- Oppenheimer, J. Robert 240
- Hughes, Howard R., Jr. 250
- Farnsworth, Philo T. 254
- Von Braun, Wernher 256
- Wilkins, Maurice 261
- Feynman, Richard 263
- Franklin, Rosalind 265
- Mowat, Farley 269
- Kearns, Robert 274
- Bull, Gerald 276
- Nash, John Forbes, Jr. 280
- Watson, James D., and Crick, Francis H. C. 285
- Fossey, Dian 290
- Sacks, Oliver 294
- Boisjoly, Roger 298
- Canfield, William 301
- Jobs, Steve 304
- Gates, Bill 307.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780810881280
- 0810881284
- OCLC:
- 711989007
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