scientists

Two-time Nobel Prize winner Marie Curie did more to promote women in science than perhaps any other person. She met Pierre, a brilliant scientist, by chance. After they were married, they worked side by side, leading to the discoveries of polonium and radium as well as many other crucial scientific finds.

Kat is reluctant to visit her Uncle Vic Frankenstein because of all the rumors about him. People in the small town where he lives say he's a mad scientist like his great-grandfather, Victor Frankenstein, who created a monster that came alive and terrorized the town.

Examines the life of Louis Pasteur, a French scientist whose discoveries, including a rabies vaccine and the process of pasteurization, had important practical applications in both medicine and industry.

Chronicles Benjamin Franklin's life from 1730 to 1747, discussing his marriage, the birth of his illegitimate son, William, his work as a printer, his founding of Pennsylvania's first volunteer fire company and Philadelphia's Library Company, and his environmentalism, and examines his writings from this period, covering such works as "The Speech of Miss Polly Baker.".

Examines the influence nineteenth-century naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt had on American history and the lives and careers of other nineteenth-century explorers.

Chronicles the life of seventeenth-century English scientist, inventor, and architect Robert Hooke, measuring his impact on science and the world in which he lived and discussing the reasons he was largely forgotten by history for three hundred years.

Chronicles Robert Hooke's efforts to rebuild London during the 1670s, after he was appointed London's Chief Surveyor after the Great Fire of 1666.

Blind Lake, a large federal research installation, is home to scientists observing a city of lobsterlike aliens on a distant planet, including an ex-husband-and-wife team who must find a way to put their differences aside when they become isolated due to a military cordon placed on the site.

Mary Shelley's classic nineteenth-century horror classic about a crazed doctor who creates a monster from dead body parts.

Griffin, a scientist, creates a serum to make himself invisible and eventually goes insane. Includes an introduction, explanatory notes, and a biography of the author.