Paris: Plon, 1921 (2010) ‒ 486 p. Electronic edition of the original book published in 1921 (a printed edition appeared in 2003 in Paris, Nouvelle Cité). It is considered a quite hagiographic biography (see, e.g., “René Bazin et Charles de Foucauld: un rendez-vous manqué?” by Dominique Casajus, in Impacts 34.2-4 (2000), pp. 149-163) even though written just a few years after...
Salem Pr Inc, 2009. 1376 p. This addition to the Great Lives series offers 409 essays covering significant inventors (27 of them female) worldwide and throughout history. The essays are arranged alphabetically from ‘Abbas ibn Firnas to Zworykin, Vladimir. The inventions that are covered occurred in a wide variety of disciplines — physics, mathematics, agriculture, astronomy,...
London: UCL Press, 2017. — 177 p. — ISBN: 978-1-78735-004-5. Bloomsbury Scientists is the story of the network of scientists and artists living in a square mile of London before and after the First World War. This inspired group of men and women viewed creativity and freedom as the driving force behind nature, and each strove to understand this in their own inventive way. Their...
Paris, Hachette Publishing, First edition: 1981, 313 p. Le renouvellement complet des mathématiques dans les enseignements élémentaire, secondaire et supérieur s'est mani- festé en particulier par une refonte du langage, désormais introduit à l'aide de définitions précises. Dès lors, la nécessité d'un dictionnaire n'est plus à prouver. Mais l'époque est révolue où l'on pouvait...
W.W. Norton, 2005. — 184 p. An intimate look at the people behind some of the great discoveries of our time. Here a renowned photographer turns her camera on some of the greatest men and women of the scientific community. The seventy-seven extraordinary portraits included in Faces of Science make their subjects accessible to us and less formidable than they may have seemed in...
Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 247 p. Published in 1998, Ladies in the Laboratory provided a systematic survey and comparison of the work of 19th-century American and British women in scientific research. A companion volume, published in 2004, focused on women scientists from Western Europe. In this third volume, author Mary R.S. Creese expands her scope to include the contributions...
New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. — 586 p. — (Oxford Paperback Reference). Bibliographic scientific dictionary in English. This book is a shortened and updated version of An Encyclopedia of Scientists, published by the Institute of Physics in 1993. In compiling this edition we have followed the intention of the original editors to say as much about science as about the...
Market House Books Ltd. 2009 This book contains information obtained from authentic and highly regarded sources concerning personal data of famous scientists. Reliable data and information.
Arcturus Publishing, 2010. — 72 p. — ISBN: 978-1-848376-06-9. From skyscrapers to jet aircraft, from mobile phones to computers, the products of modern science surround us on all sides. Perhaps the most significant product of science, however, is not the microwave, or the space station or the widescreen TV; it is the scientific method itself. Those societies that have actively...
Birkhäuser/Springer, 1983. - 202 p. This monograph is an attempt to acquaint the modern reader with the philosophy and scientific investigations of the universal scholar Girolamo Cardano of Milan, who lived from 1501 to 1576. Cardano was a physician, astrologer, and interpreter of dreams. His significance as a mathematician is undisputed; he enjoyed an international reputation...
Routledge, 2004. — 465 p. Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) -- German Jesuit, occultist, polymath - was one of most curious figures in the history of science. He dabbled in all the mysteries of his time: the heavenly bodies, sound amplification, museology, botany, Asian languages, the pyramids of Egypt -- almost anything incompletely understood. Kircher coined the term...
Brill, 2011. — 607 p. Athanasius Kircher, a German Jesuit in 17th-century Rome, was an enigma. Intensely pious and a prolific author, he was also a polymath fascinated with everything from Egyptian hieroglyphs to the tiny creatures in his microscope. His correspondence with popes, princes and priests was a window into the restless energy of the period. It showed first-hand the...
Springer, 2013. - 196 p. This book presents the extraordinary story of a Bolognese woman of the settecento. Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-1778) defended 49 Theses at the University of Bologna on April 17, 1732 and was awarded a doctoral degree on May 12 of the same year. Three weeks before her defense, she was made a member of the Academy of Sciences in Bologna. On June 27...
Random House, 2004. - 646 p. A wonderfully readable account of scientific development over the past five hundred years, focusing on the lives and achievements of individual scientists, by the bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger’s CatIn this ambitious new book, John Gribbin tells the stories of the people who have made science, and of the times in which they lived and...
ABC-CLIO, 2001. - 383 p. International Women in Science: A Bibliographical Dictionary to 1950 presents the enormous contributions of women outside North America in fields ranging from aviation to computer science to zoology. It provides fascinating profiles of nearly 400 women scientists, both renowned figures like Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie and women we should know...
Oxford University Press, 2002. — 369 p. Henry Oldenburg, born in 1619 in Bremen, Germany, first came to England as a diplomat on a mission to see Oliver Cromwell. He stayed on in England and in 1662 became the Secretary of the Royal Society, and its best known member to the entire learned world of his time. Through his extensive correspondence, now published, he disseminated...
Oxford University Press, 2015. - 363 p. Magdolna Hargittai uses over fifteen years of in-depth conversation with female physicists, chemists, biomedical researchers, and other scientists to form cohesive ideas on the state of the modern female scientist. The compilation, based on sixty conversations, examines unique challenges that women with serious scientific aspirations...
Blucher, 2017. — 128 p. Women Scientists: 50 Women Who Changed the World. In Portuguese. Recheado de ilustrações encantadoras, As cientistas destaca as contribuições de cinquenta mulheres notáveis para os campos da ciência, da tecnologia, da engenharia e da matemática, desde o mundo antigo até o contemporâneo, além de trazer infográficos sobre equipamentos de laboratório, taxas...
School-lyceum 130, Novosibirsk, 2019. - 40 p. Thirst for Learning A Great Scientist Escape to Moscow The First Job Student Hardships A Bad Relationship Scholarships
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914. — VIII, 426 p. A.G. Little. Introduction: On Roger Bacon's Life and Works. Ludwig Baur. Der Einfluss des Robert Grosseteste auf die wissenschaftliche Richtung des Roger Bacon. Francois Picavet. La Place de Roger Bacon parmi les Philosophes du XIII e siecle. Francis Aidan Cardinal Gasquet. Roger Bacon and the Latin Vulgate. S.A. Hirsch. Roger Bacon...
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002. — 231 p. Did you know...that the woman who discovered the largest and most complete T. rex fossil on record was a high-school dropout who became one of the world's greatest fossil hunters?..that the great British scientist Michael Faraday was the son of a blacksmith and had very little formal education?..that Gregor Mendel had time to study...
Joseph Henry Press, 1998. - 2nd ed. - 460 p. In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for the astonishing disparity in the number of Nobel Prizes awarded to women. She examines the lives and achievements of 15 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. The...
Facts on File, 2002. - 372 p. Because the field of Science, Technology & Society (STS) is inter-disciplinary, this A-to-Z collection presents scientists from backgrounds as diverse as early aviation technology and modern computer science. There are compelling biographies of biophysicists, chemists, physicians, electrical engineers, psychologists, pathologists, mathematicians,...
Facts on File, 2007. - 960 p. "Encyclopedia of World Scientists, Revised Edition" is a diverse and comprehensive two-volume collection of biographies of scientists. This essential work contains fascinating stories of nearly 1,000 scientists - almost half of whom are female - who have contributed significantly to their fields. All scientific disciplines are represented, as well...
Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. - 288 p. No one has given the extraordinary Thomas Young the all-round examination he so richly deserves - until now. Celebrated biographer, Andrew Robinson portrays a man who solved mystery after mystery in the face of ridicule and rejection, and never sought fame. Physics textbooks identify Thomas Young (1773-1829) as the experimenter who first proved...
Rosen Education Service, 2010. — 360 p. — (100 Most Influential). — ISBN: 978-1615300020. Leonardo da Vincis study of mechanics led to the creation of early prototypes of flying machines and submarines. Biologist Carolus Linnaeus pioneered the hierarchal system of taxonomic classification in use today. Barbara McClintocks genetics research garnered her the Nobel Prize in...
Philadelphia: American Ecclesiastical Review The Dolphin Press, 1906. — IX, 221 p. The Supposed Opposition of Science and Religion. Copernicus and His Times. Basil Valentine: Founder of Modern Chemistry. Linacre: Scholar, Physician, Priest. Father Kircher, S.J.: Scientist, Orientalist, and Collector. Bishop Stensen: Anatomist and Father of Geology. Abbe Hauy: Father of...
Prometheus Book, 2016. — 734 p. — ISBN: 9781633881570. Science s Evaluation System Democritus and Aristotle Ponder the Existence of Atoms Aristotle, Aristarchus, Copernicus, and Galileo Seek to Determine Earth s Place in the Cosmos Isaak Newton, Robert Hooke, and Gottfried Leibniz Argue about Motion and Calculus The Battling Bernoullis and Bernoull s Principe Antoine Lavoiser...
Wolfram Media, 2016. — 239 p. This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and technology. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences,...
Wolfram Media, 2016. — 239 p. This book of thoroughly engaging essays from one of today's most prodigious innovators provides a uniquely personal perspective on the lives and achievements of a selection of intriguing figures from the history of science and technology. Weaving together his immersive interest in people and history with insights gathered from his own experiences,...
Revised ed. - Facts on File, 2008. - 368 p. From ancient times to the present day, scientifically inclined women in many cultures have had to battle against the traditional belief that men are more cognitively adept than women. At times throughout history, women were persecuted for their attempts to break down traditional gender barriers. Today, women scientists and...
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