A brief biography of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century German physicist, Max Planck, whose research led to the discovery of the quantum theory.
A concise biography of George Washington Carver that describes his childhood, education, and scientific research on plants and soil conservation; and includes a chronology and a list of important people to botanical sciences.
Introduces numerous weather scientists, called meteorologists, who study and report weather, recounting the historical progress in meteorological study and the inventions that have increased the accuracy of weather prediction.
Offers a brief overview of genetics, with information on dominant and recessive alleles, Punnett squares, DNA, the Human Genome Project, mutations, and cloning.
