100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World

'If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.'
- Sir Isaac Newton


This stylish jacketed hardback introduces 100 of these giants of scientific discovery: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, and genetics.

Spanning from the ancient world to the 20th century, these figures include:
• Aristotle
• Leonardo di Vinci
• Benjamin Franklin
• Isaac Newton
• Marie Curie
• Stephen Hawking

Including brilliant illustrations, fact boxes of key information, and a chronology of important dates, 100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World provides riveting insight into the men and women who shaped the world today.

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100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World

'If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.'
- Sir Isaac Newton


This stylish jacketed hardback introduces 100 of these giants of scientific discovery: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, and genetics.

Spanning from the ancient world to the 20th century, these figures include:
• Aristotle
• Leonardo di Vinci
• Benjamin Franklin
• Isaac Newton
• Marie Curie
• Stephen Hawking

Including brilliant illustrations, fact boxes of key information, and a chronology of important dates, 100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World provides riveting insight into the men and women who shaped the world today.

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100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World

100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World

by Jon Balchin
100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World

100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World

by Jon Balchin

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'If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.'
- Sir Isaac Newton


This stylish jacketed hardback introduces 100 of these giants of scientific discovery: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry, and genetics.

Spanning from the ancient world to the 20th century, these figures include:
• Aristotle
• Leonardo di Vinci
• Benjamin Franklin
• Isaac Newton
• Marie Curie
• Stephen Hawking

Including brilliant illustrations, fact boxes of key information, and a chronology of important dates, 100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World provides riveting insight into the men and women who shaped the world today.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781398806344
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing
Publication date: 04/15/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 14 MB
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About the Author

Jon Balchin graduated with honors from the University of London in 1997. He then worked for ExxonMobil before becoming a full-time writer. His previous works include To the Ends of the Earth: Journey's of Great Explorers and Quantum Leaps.

Jon Balchin graduated with honour from the University of London in 1997. He then worked for ExxonMobil before becoming a full-time writer. His previous works include '100 Scientists who Changed the World'. He lives in Surrey.

Table of Contents

The Ancients

Anaximander 8

Pythagoras 10

Hippocrates of Cos 12

Democritus of Abdera 14

Plato 16

Aristotle 18

Euclid 20

Archimedes 22

Hipparchus 24

The First Millennium

Zhang Heng 26

Ptolemy 28

Galen of Pergamum 30

Al-Khwarizmi 32

The Fifteenth Century

Johannes Gutenberg 34

Leonardo da Vinci 36

Nicolas Copernicus 38

The Sixteenth Century

Andreas Vesalius 40

William Gilbert 42

Francis Bacon 44

Galileo Galilei 46

Johannes Kepler 48

William Harvey 50

Johann van Helmont 52

René Descartes 54

The Seventeenth Century

Blaise Pascal 56

Robert Boyle 58

Christiaan Huygens 60

Anton van Leeuwenhoek 62

Robert Hooke 64

The Eighteenth Century

Sir Isaac Newton 66

Edmund Halley 68

Thomas Newcomen 70

Daniel Fahrenheit 72

Benjamin Franklin 74

Joseph Black 76

Henry Cavendish 78

Joseph Priestley 80

James Watt 82

Charles de Coulomb 84

Joseph Montgolfier 86

Karl Wilhelm Scheele 88

Antoine Lavoisier 90

Count Alessandro Volta 92

Edward Jenner 94

John Dalton 96

André-Marie Ampère 98

The Nineteenth Century

Amedeo Avogadro 100

Joseph Gay-Lussac 102

Charles Babbage 104

Michael Faraday 106

Charles Darwin 108

James Joule 110

Louis Pasteur 112

Johann Mendel 114

Jean-Joseph Lenoir 116

Lord Kelvin 118

James Maxwell 120

Alfred Nobel 122

Wilhelm Gottlieb Daimler 124

Dmitri Mendeleev 126

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen 128

Thomas Alva Edison 130

Alexander Graham Bell 132

Antoine-Henri Becquerel 134

Paul Ehrlich 136

The Twentieth Century

Nikola Tesla 138

Sir Joseph John Thomson 140

Sigmund Freud 142

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz 144

Max Planck 146

Leo Baekeland 148

Thomas Hunt Morgan 150

Marie Curie 152

Sir Ernest Rutherford 154

The Wright Brothers 156

Guglielmo Marconi 158

Frederick Soddy 160

Albert Einstein 162

Sir Alexander Fleming 164

Robert Goddard 166

Niels Bohr 168

Erwin Schrödinger 170

Henry Moseley 172

Edwin Hubble 174

Sir James Chadwick 176

Frederick Banting 178

Louis de Broglie 180

Enrico Fermi 182

Werner Heisenberg 184

Linus Pauling 186

Robert Oppenheimer 188

Sir Frank Whittle 190

Edward Teller 192

William Shockley 194

Alan Turing 196

Jonas Salk 198

Rosalind Franklin 200

James Dewey Watson 202

Stephen Hawking 204

Tim Berners-Lee 206

Scientists A-Z 208

Picture Credits 208

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