Glenn, Jim

Scientific genius : the twenty greatest minds / Jim Glenn. - New York : Crescent Books, 1996. - 160 p : ill. ; 29 cm.

Aristotle -- Archimedes -- Galileo Galilei -- William Harvey -- Rene Descartes -- Blaise Pascal -- Isaac Newton -- Karl Gauss -- Michael Faraday -- Charles Darwin -- Evariste Galois -- Gregor Mendel -- Robert Koch -- Ivan Pavlov -- Albert Einstein -- Werner Heisenberg -- John von Neumann -- Alan Turing -- Linus Pauling -- Stephen Hawking.

Features on developments in related fields place each scientist's achievements in context.

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Scientists -- Biography.
Aristotle.

Q 141 / G558s 1996

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