Table of Contents
Introduction 7
Pythagoras of Samos (ca. 570-ca. 495 BCE?) 9
Hippocrates (ca. 460-ca. 370 BCE) 13
Euclid of Alexandria (ca. 325-ca. 270 BCE) 17
Archimedes of Syracuse (ca. 287-212 BCE) 20
Ptolemy (Claudius Ptolemaeus) (ca. 90-ca. 168) 24
Hypatia of Alexandria (ca. 355-415) 28
Alhazen (Abu Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham) (ca. 965-ca. 1040) 32
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) 35
Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) 39
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) 43
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 47
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) 53
William Harvey (1578-1657) 60
Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 63
Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) 73
Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) 77
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778) 80
Mikhail Lomonosov (1711-1765) 83
James Hutton (1726-1797) 86
James Watt (1736-1819) 89
Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) 92
Edward Jenner (1749-1823) 97
John Dalton (1766-1844) 99
William Smith (1769-1839) 103
Michael Faraday (1791-1867) 106
Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 110
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) 119
Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865) 122
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) 125
Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) 129
Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866) 135
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879) 138
Marie Curie (1867-1934) 143
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) 148
Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 152
Alfred Wegener (1880-1930) 163
Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961) 166
Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) 170
Howard Florey (1898-1968) 173
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) 176
Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) 179
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 184
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995) 187
Alan Turing (1912-1954) 190
Jonas Salk (1914-1995) 194
James Lovelock (b. 1919) 198
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) 201
Stephen Hawking (b. 1942) 204
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (b. 1943) 211
James Hansen (b. 1941) 214
Index of Names 218
Acknowledgments / About the Author 224