Heilbron takes in the landscape of culture, learning, religion, science, theology, and politics of late Renaissance Italy to produce a richer and more rounded view of Galileo, his scientific thinking, and the company he kept.
A former Soviet scientist, Elena Irinovna cleans office buildings. Ilya Muromyets is an eight-hundred-year-old remnant of Russia's glorious past. Now he's a broken man. They are brought together by a strange artifact made of an unknown metal that offers a glimpse into another dimension, creating a dangerous breach in a world they both only thought they knew...
Presents biographies of ten scientists including Margaret Greenstein, John Huchra, Luis Alvarez, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Richard Feynman, focusing on their genuis intelligence.
Presents thirteen stories which describe how scientists used methods of microscopic investigation to uncover such mysteries as radioactivity, diabetes, microchips, and superconductors.
A biography of a scientists who has received two Nobel prizes: one for his work on the nature of the chemical bond that holds atoms together, the other for helping to stop the spread of nuclear weapons. His most recent work is concerned with vitamin C.
