scientists

Contains biographical information on 2,000 of the most important scientists of all time exploring both their training and careers as well as their contributions to our everyday lives.

Profiles the life of the scientist who studied mountain gorillas in central Africa and worked to ensure their survival.

Presents a brief biography of Alexander Fleming, Nobel Prize-winning British bacteriologist who discovered penicillin, describing his childhood, his achievements, and the impact of his contributions on modern medicine.

This book chronicles the lives and accomplishments of some of the world's preeminent scientists and ranks them in a selected order of influence.

When paleoecologist Evan Marshall and his small group of scientists discover a large, ancient animal encased in ice two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle, the media threatens to reveal the creature on television, despite warnings from Native Americans that a mythic killing machine maybe released.

Scotland Yard Detective Herbert Smith investigates a suspicious death of a young man found in the icy waters of Long Water, and finds himself involved with the CIA, KGB, and MI5 in a race to unravel the secrets the dead biochemist held.

Nobel laureate Gregory North Hazelius and his team of scientists prepare to test the world's largest supercollider in the hopes of proving what happened at the first moment of creation, despite the objections of religious fanatics, who fear they will disprove the existence of God, and government officials, who hope to use the team's research to create a super weapon that could destroy the earth.