scientists

Examines the life of nineteenth-century French scientist Louis Pasteur, discussing his early years and family, his education, and his career in science, during which he discovered that heating a liquid could kill off organisms that might cause disease or spoilage.

Discusses the life and work of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk who studied heredity in plants and is considered the father of genetics.

Profiles the life and career of climate scientist Inez Fung, and chronicles her childhood in Hong Kong, education and study in America, and her work on weather patterns.

A collection of short stories that interweaves historical and fictional characters moving between past and present as they discuss ambition, failure, achievement, and shattered dreams.

Alphabetical articles profile the life and work of notable scientists and inventors from antiquity to the present, beginning with Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz and concluding with the Wright Brothers.

When Dewey Kerrigan moves to a new home near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family, she shares secrets with her "sister" Suze, adjusts to high school, and faces her long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci.

Profiles eight American scientists who have made important contributions to twentieth-century science, including Thomas Hunt Morgan, Robert Oppenheimer, and Linus Pauling.

A biography of Benjamin Franklin that follows him from his childhood in Boston, where he was the son of a poor soap and candle maker with seventeen children, to his death, describing how Franklin became a self-made man who died a renowned statesman, scientist, printer, author, and inventor.

Discusses the work scientists are doing with the golden orb weaver spider, whose web silk is nearly indestructible, and genetically engineered goats, whose milk contains the proteins needed to artificially spin the spider silk and produce it in a quantity that will make it realistic to use in health care, in body armor, in parachutes, and much more.