scientists

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Two-fisted science

2001
Presents graphic adaptations of true stories about some of the world's greatest scientists, including Newton, Galileo, Bohr, and Heisenberg.

Nicholas Copernicus and the founding of modern astronomy

2004
Presents the life and work of the famous sixteenth-century Polish astronomer.

Sigmund Freud

2003
A biography of the world-famous Austrian doctor who spent his life analyzing the mind and its illnesses.

Albert Einstein

2003
A biography of the physicist whose theories of relativity revolutionized the way we look at space and time.

Looking for life in the universe

the search for extraterrestrial intelligence
2002
Investigates how scientists, particularly Jill Tarter, Director of the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California, use twenty-first century technology to investigate whether life exists on other planets.

Timeline

2000
A group of scientists, having learned how to travel through time, enter life in fourteenth-century feudal France and threaten the history of the world.

The time machine

and, The invisible man
1984
The Time Machine conveys the time traveler into a far distant future on a slowly dying Earth. In The Invisible Man a young scientist becomes invisible and then insane.

Joanne Simpson

magnificent meteorologist
2013
A children's biography of Joanne Simpson, the first woman in United States history to receive a doctoral degree in meteorology.

Benjamin Banneker

2006
Presents a short biography of African-American surveyor and author, Benjamin Banneker, who helped to survey the land for the U.S. Capitol.

George Washington Carver

2004
Presents an introduction to the life of African-American scientist George Washington Carver who overcame great hardship to make unusual and important discoveries in the field of agriculture.

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