{"product_id":"the-scientists-9780500297063","title":"The Scientists","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForty articles expertly curated by biographer Andrew Robinson provide an unrivalled account of the lives and personalities behind the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time.     Who made us see the atom, our minds, our planet and the universe afresh? How did we uncover the mysteries of life on earth? What next?   The theories, discoveries and inventions of scientists have revolutionized our consciousness. Think of gravity, evolution, relativity, radioactivity and the Big Bang; electric motors, vaccines, nuclear power and computers. Behind these breakthroughs lie the personal stories of men and women with vision and determination: singular thinkers who defied adversity in their quest for answers. This book tells the remarkable lives of the pioneers  from Galileo, Faraday and Darwin, through Pasteur and Marie Curie, to Einstein, Freud and Turing. Written by an international team of distinguished scientists, historians and science writers, it will intrigue budding scientists; those\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Excellent ...  of broad interest to scientists and non-scientists alike' - The Lancet\u003cbr\u003e'A sampler of the driven, complex, fascinating characters who fomented scientific revolutions' - Nature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eUniverse\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Nicolaus Copernicus • Johannes Kepler • Galileo Galilei • Isaac Newton • Michael Faraday • James Clerk Maxwell • Albert Einstein • Edwin Powell Hubble\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eEarth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e James Hutton • Charles Lyell • Alexander von Humboldt • Alfred Wegener\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eMolecules and Matter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Robert Boyle • Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier • John Dalton • Dmitri Mendeleev • August Kekulé • Dorothy Crowfoot • Hodgkin Chandrasekhara • Venkata Raman\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eInside the Atom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Marie Curie and Pierre Curie • Ernest Rutherford • Niels Bohr • Linus Carl Pauling • Enrico Fermi • Hideki Yukawa \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLife\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Carl Linnaeus • Jan Ingenhousz • Charles Darwin • Gregor Mendel • Jan Purkinje • Santiago Ramón y Cajal • Francis Crick and James Watson\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eBody and Mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Andreas Vesalius • William Harvey • Louis Pasteur • Francis Galton • Sigmund Freud • Alan Turing • John von Neumann • Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey","brand":"Thames \u0026 Hudson Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402766033239,"sku":"9780500297063","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780500297063.jpg?v=1730481450","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-scientists-9780500297063","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}