Giants of science (Viking)
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2005
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. Nothing stopped him. It was illegal to dissect human corpses, so he did autopsies in secret, even devising a clever...
2) Isaac Newton
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
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.
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Sigmund Freud , Giants of science (Viking) volume 3
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4) Marie Curie
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
Publisher
Viking Children's Book
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered. Readers will learn about the dark side of a woman and her devotion to science--the politics of science, her depression, and the drive to succeed. It is a brutally honest portrayal of a woman in a field dominated by men.
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Giants of science (Viking) volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 4
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.
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Charles Darwin
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