The Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day / introduction by John Gribbin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Staff, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

Gribbin, John H., writer of introduction.

Series:

Britannica guide series.

The Britannica Guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science--Popular works.

Science.

Scientists--Biography--Popular works.

Scientists.

Science--History--Popular works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages).

Edition:

1st edition.

Other Title:

100 most influential scientists

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Running Press ; London : Robinson, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 100 Most Influential Scientists is part of the Britannica Guide Series that offers a look into 100 scientists from Ancient Greece to the present day. The Britannica Guides series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our time. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student, or traveler.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction; Thales of Miletus; Pythagoras; Hippocrates; Plato; Aristotle; Euclid; Archimedes; Pliny the Elder; Ptolemy; Galen of Pergamum; Al-Khwarizmi; Avicenna; Roger Bacon; Leonardo da Vinci; Nicolaus Copernicus; Paracelsus; Andreas Vesalius; Tycho Brahe; Girodano Bruno; Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban; Galileo Galilei; Johannes Kepler; William Harvey; René Descartes; Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke; John Ray; Sir Isaac Newton; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz; Leonhard Euler; Carolus Linnaeus; Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Jean Le Rond d'Alembert; Henry Cavendish

Joseph PriestleyJames Watt; Luigi Galvani and Conte Alessandro Volta; Sir William Herschel and Caroline Herschel; Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier; Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace; Edward Jenner; Georges, Baron Cuvier; Alexander von Humboldt; Sophic Germain; Carl Friedrich Gauss; Sir Humphry Davy; Jöns Jacob Berzelius; John James Audubon; Michael Faraday; Charles Babbage and Ada King, countess of Lovelace; Sir Charles Lyell, Baronet; Louis Agassiz; Charles Darwin; Évariste Galois; Sir Francis Galton; Gregor Mendel; Louis Pasteur; Alfred Russel Wallace; William Thomson, Baron Kelvin

James Clerk MaxwellDmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev; Robert Koch; Georg Cantor; Henri Poincaré; Sigmund Freud; Nikola Tesla; Max Planck; William Bateson; Marie Curie and Pierre Curie; Sir Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson; Carl Gustav Jung; Albert Einstein; Alfred Lothar Wegener; Sir Alexander Fleming; Niels Bohr; Erwin Schrödinger; Srinivasa Ramanujan; Edwin Powell Hubble; Enrico Fermi; John von Neumann; George Gamow; J. Robert Oppenheimer; Kurt Gödel; Hans Bethe; Rachel Carson; Alan M. Turing; Norman Ernest Borlaug; Sir Fred Hoyle

Francis Harry Compton Crick and James Dewey WatsonRichard P. Feynman; Rosalind Franklin; Jack Kilby; John Forbes Nash Jr; Edward O. Wilson; Jane Goodall; Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, and Robert F. Curl Jr; Stephen Jay Gould; Stephen W. Hawking; J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins; Steven Pinker; Sir Tim Berners-Lee; Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611827199

9781281827197

1281827193

9781593398460

1593398468

OCLC:

289098077