University Of Minnesota Press, 1999. — 408 p. Sigurd Olson (1899-1982) was acknowledged during his lifetime as a leader of the American environmental movement, an emblematic figure for an entire generation of activists. "A Wilderness Within" is the first biography of this writer, teacher, and activist who was a harbinger of the opening of America's ecological consciousness.
Almaty: KazNTU, 2006. — 138 p. In this manual is characterized the nature of mining-geological specialties on a sample of study of many-sided activity of an outstanding scientist-geologist, first President of the Academy of sciences of the Kazakh SSR, organizer of science, mining and geological service and higher technical education in Kazakhstan, academician K.I.Satpaev. Here...
Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 1986. — 386 p. — ISBN: 0-8032-1192-9. The Women in the West series is designed to reflect the extraordinary range of new research into the contributions made by women to the westward movement and to the subsequent development of western North America. Maxine Benson's finely crafted biography of Martha Maxwell marks an auspicious...
Notable Scientists, 2003. - 241 p. Clearly written and well organized and aim to include male and female contributors in their fields. The authors have included 145 scientists from varied educational and economic backgrounds, many countries, and different time periods. The focus is on scientists works, scientific achievements situated in their proper social context and...
Chemnitz: E. Schmeitzner, 1880. — 228 s. Dien Schrift richtet sieh nicht bios an diejenigen, welche sich für Naturwissenschaft, für die Art, wie die Wiesenschah zur Welt gebracht wird, und für die Schicksale ihrer grüssten Träger interessiren. Sie ist auch Oh diejenigen bestimmt, welche überhaupt an Gebteetbaten und Geistesschicksalen von allgemein menschlicher Tragweite...
Facts on File, 2003. - 336 p. In one volume, this authoritative reference covers notable Earth scientists from the nineteenth century to the present, in areas including climate change, geophysics, oceanography, paleontology, planetary geology, sedimentology and stratigraphy, and tectonics. John Dewey, Ian Carmichael, Stephen Jay Gould, Carl Sagan, Richard Tuttle, and Heinrich...
The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London, 2016. – 268 p. – ISBN: 022635136X. What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 242 p. Sir Isaac Newton once declared that his momentous discoveries were only made thanks to having 'stood on the shoulders of giants'. The same might also be said of the scientists James Watson and Francis Crick. Their discovery of the structure of DNA was, without doubt, one of the biggest scientific landmarks in history and, thanks largely...
Oxford University Press, 2014. - 386 p. Throughout the 1990s and the 2000s, Istvan, Balazs, and Magdolna Hargittai conducted hundreds of interviews with leading scientists in physics, chemistry, materials, and biomedical research. These interviews appeared in a variety of publications, including Chemical Intelligencer , Mathematical Intelligencer , and Chemical Heritage . In...
Springer, 2013. - 739 p. This is by far the most exhaustive biography on Niels Stensen, anatomist, geologist and bishop, better known as 'Nicolaus Steno'. We learn about the scientist’s family and background in Lutheran Denmark, of his teachers at home and abroad, of his studies and travels in the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Bohemia and Germany, of...
Springer, 2012. — 488 p. — (Archimedes, Vol. 28) The book about John Michell (1724-93) has two parts. The first and longest part is biographical, an account of Michell’s home setting (Nottinghamshire in England), the clerical world in which he grew up (Church of England), the university (Cambridge) where he studied and taught, and the scientific activities he made the center of...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2010. — 676 p. This biography of Aldo Leopold follows him from his childhood as a precocious naturalist to his profoundly influential role in the development of conservation and modern environmentalism in the United States. This edition includes a new preface by author Curt Meine and an appreciation by acclaimed Kentucky writer and farmer Wendell...
MIT Press, 2010. — 235 p. The first biography in English of a nineteenth-century German scientist whose experimental approach influences today's neuroscience. Although Hermann von Helmholtz was one of most remarkable figures of nineteenth-century science, he is little known outside his native Germany. Helmholtz (1821–1894) made significant contributions to the study of vision...
Brill, 2011. - 478 p. This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso. Lister is recognized for his discovery of ballooning spiders and as the father of conchology, but it is less well known...
University of Chicago Press, 2019. — 445 p. Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of "almost-Darwin", a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darwin’s prodigious insights. But this diminution could hardly be less justified. Research...
Springer, 2018. — 336 p. — (Springer Biographies). Featuring the previously unpublished diary of José María Sobral, Under-Lieutenant of the Argentine Navy, this book provides insight on his life and his participation in Otto Nordenskjöld's Swedish Antarctic Expedition of 1901-1903. This biography highlights Sobral's personal thoughts on the mission, his position, the science...
Springer, 2017. — 137 p. — (Springer Biographies) This book is a scientific biography of Louis Harold (“Hal”) Gray, FRS (1905–65), a pioneer in radiobiology – a little known science that is nevertheless extremely important since it constitutes the basis of radiotherapy. Hal Gray’s work also played a vital role in ensuring that radiography would be a safe procedure for the...
Chelsea House Pub., 2009. - 160 p. Alfred Wegener recounts the life and work of the notable German meteorologist whose groundbreaking theory of continental displacement, later called continental drift, revolutionized the 18th- and 19th-century observations about the development of Earth that were embraced by his contemporary geologist peers. The book includes information on how...
Chelsea House Pub., 2009. - 156 p. Robert Ballard recounts the life and work of the notable American explorer and undersea archaeologist famous for his discoveries of the shipwrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the German battleship Bismarck in 1989, the aircraft carrier Yorktown in 1998, and the PT-109 motor torpedo boat, once commanded by John F. Kennedy, in 2003. The book...
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