TY  - BOOK
AU  - Farndon, John
TI  - Great scientists: from Euclid to Stephen Hawking 
SN  - 9780760780619
AV  - Q141 .F37 2006
PY  - 2006///
CY  - New York
PB  - Barnes & Noble
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - History
N1  - Profiles influential scientists and their discoveries, including Nicolas Copernicus, Charles Darwin, and Albert Einstein. Some of the most important principles of modern society were founded hundreds, even thousands, of years ago. Explore the lives of some of the greatest philosophers and thinkers of all time, from Socrates to Sartre. Topics covered include, how they lived, what their principles were, and what kind of an impact they have on modern society; The ancients : Archimedes --
The Renaissance : Leonardo da Vinci --
Nicolas Copernicus --
Andreas Vesalius --
Galileo Galilei --
The seventeenth century : Anton von Leeuwenhoek --
Robert Hooke --
Sir Isaac Newton --
The eighteenth century : Carolus Linnaeus --
Antoine Lavoisier --
John Dalton --
The nineteenth century: Michael Faraday --
Charles Darwin --
Louis Pasteur --
Gregor Mendel --
Dmitri Mendeleyev --
James Clerk Maxwell --
The twentieth century: Max Planck --
Marie Curie --
Ernest Rutherford --
Albert Einstein --
Niels Bohr --
Edwin Hubble --
Werner Heisenberg --
The DNA team: Francis Crick, James Watson, and Rosalind Franklin --
Stephen Hawking
ER  -