scientists

A biography of the Scottish bacteriologist and Nobel Prize winner who discovered penicillin and its antibiotic properties.

Presents color-illustrated, chronologically arranged biographical profiles of more than forty groundbreaking Western scientists, featuring such figures as Aristotle, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking, and providing diagrams, discussion boxes, and capsule biographies of related scientists.

Profiles twelve Asian-American scientists, including Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Paul Chung-wu Chu, and Constance Tom Noguchi.

Tash, Zak, and their mysterious Uncle Hoole find themselves in a dangerous situation when they journey to Kiva, a planet on the galaxy's Outer Rim, to make sure the evil Borborygmus Gog's Project Starscream has really been destroyed.

Well-known scientists from a variety of fields tell how they developed an interest in science, how they got where they are today, and things to think about when considering a career in science.

Chronicles the life of sixteenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei, who changed the world with his discovery that Earth is not the center of the universe but, rather, revolves around the sun, and discusses his investigation by the Inquisition.

Chronicles the life of the English naturalist who, after collecting plants and animals from around the world, postulated the theory of evolution by natural selection; and includes twenty-one activities.

Details, through photographs and text, the life and career of French scientist Louis Pasteur.

A biography of Benjamin Franklin from his birth in Boston in 1706 through his years as printer, statesman, inventor, author, and reformer.