scientists

Biography of Danish physicist Niels Bohr, who won the Nobel prize in 1922 for his work on the properties of atoms.

Includes biographies of ten women who have made significant contributions to modern science, including Barbara McClintock, Katsuko Saruhashi, E. Margaret Burbidge, and Lydia Phindile Makhubu.

Presents the life of the Nobel Prize-winning British bacteriologists whose discovery of penicillin in 1928 revolutionized the treatment of disease.

A biography of the scientist who developed the first liquid propelled rocket.

Photographs and text tell the life story of the brilliant scientist who contributed key discoveries about black holes and the Big Bang while suffering from a crippling degenerative disease.

Chronological listings, from 1900 through 1981, of significant discoveries and developments in medicine, communications, transport, energy, food technology, and other fields.