scientists

A biography of the scientist and humanitarian who discovered the vaccine for polio, a disease which crippled many people in the early part of the twentieth century.

Minski travels across Europe inventing wonderful things, till at last he accomplishes his proudest achievement.

Profiles the life of Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci; highlighting his legal problems, students, artistic work, inventions, and scientific discoveries, and including a chronology, historical timeline, suggestions for further reading, and a glossary.

Tough New Orleans detective Carson O'Connor and her partner, Michael Maddison, investigate a string of murders, unaware that the culprit they seek was created by Victor Frankenstein, who has survived two hundred years and is populating the city with a new race of "perfect" beings, and that his original creation, Deucalion, is hunting his maker.

Profiles the life and work of inventor Thomas Edison, describing his different inventions, many of which are still being used today, as well as his personal life.

Presents a biography of Benjamin Franklin--statesman, diplomat, and inventor--from his early childhood in Boston, Massachusetts, to his work in the American Revolution, through his time spent in England, and his return to Philadelphia. Includes time line, glossary, and index.

Chronicles the life of Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, describing his accomplishments, his artistic techniques, his other areas of study, and the world in which he lived, and features more than one hundred illustrations.

Presents a brief biography of Albert Einstein, the twentieth-century physicist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way the world looks at space and time, and includes Einstein's 1934 essay "The World As I See It.".

A short biography of nineteenth-century Russian scientist and chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev that profiles his life and works which included his formation of the Periodic Table of the Elements that forms the foundation for all advances in chemistry.

Examines the life and work of Gregor Mendel, a nineteenth-century monk whose curiosity led to his discovery of the gene.