The Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists : the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day
The 100 Most Influential Scientists is part of the Britannica Guide Series that offers a look into 100 scientists from Ancient Greece to the present day. The Britannica Guides series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our time. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student, or traveler
eBook, English, ©2008
Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., [London], ©2008
Biographies
1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages)
9781593398460, 9781281827197, 9786611827199, 1593398468, 1281827193, 6611827196
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Thales of Miletus
Pythagoras
Hippocrates
Plato
Aristotle
Euclid
Archimedes
Pliny the Elder
Ptolemy
Galen of Pergamum
Al-Khwārizmī
Avicenna
Roger Bacon
Leonardo da Vinci
Nicolaus Copernicus
Paracelsus
Andreas Vesalius
Tycho Brahe
Girodano Bruno
Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban
Galileo Galilei
Johannes Kepler
William Harvey
René Descartes
Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke
John Ray
Sir Isaac Newton
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Leonhard Euler
Carolus Linnaeus
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
Henry Cavendish
Joseph Priestley
James Watt
Luigi Galvani and Conte Alessandro Volta
Sir William Herschel and Caroline Herschel
Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
Edward Jenner
Georges, Baron Cuvier
Alexander von Humboldt
Sophie Germain
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Sir Humphry Davy
Jöns Jacob Berzelius
John James Audubon
Michael Faraday
Charles Babbage and Ada King, countess of Lovelace
Sir Charles Lyell, Baronet
Louis Agassiz
Charles Darwin
Évariste Galois
Sir Francis Galton
Gregor Mendel
Louis Pasteur
Alfred Russel Wallace
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
James Clerk Maxwell
Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev
Robert Koch
Georg Cantor
Henri Poincaré
Sigmund Freud
Nikola Tesla
Max Planck
William Bateson
Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
Sir Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
Carl Gustav Jung
Albert Einstein
Alfred Lothar Wegener
Sir Alexander Fleming
Niels Bohr
Erwin Schrödinger
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Edwin Powell Hubble
Enrico Fermi
John von Neumann
George Gamow
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kurt Gödel
Hans Bethe
Rachel Carson
Alan M. Turing
Norman Ernest Borlaug
Sir Fred Hoyle
Francis Harry Compton Crick and James Dewey Watson
Richard P. Feynman
Rosalind Franklin
Jack Kilby
John Forbes Nash Jr
Edward O. Wilson
Jane Goodall
Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, and Robert F. Curl Jr
Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen W. Hawking
J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins
Steven Pinker
Sir Tim Berners-Lee
Includes index
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