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1) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marie Curie, the woman who coined the term radioactivity, won not just one Nobel Prize but two?in physics and chemistry, both supposedly girl-phobic sciences.
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
Language
English
Description
For more than thirty years-half his life-he was obsessively devoted to investigating Everything in the natural world. Nothing escaped his interest-how our eyes see, why the sky is blue, what forces build mountains, how light travels, where water comes from, and-most fascinating of all to Leonardo-the inner workings of the human body.
3) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
126 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Before Freud, nobody discussed "unconscious" motives, Oedipal complexes, the id and the ego, or Freudian slips. Freud was a complicated, often irascible man, who in 19th-century Vienna developed his still-controversial ideas and the new discipline of psychoanalysis.
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
121 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shows Ben Franklin the "natural philosopher" (the term for scientists back in the 1700s), whose experiments led to important discoveries about the nature of electricity -- including his famous demonstration that electricity and lightning were one and the same.
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