The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery (2012), edited by Andrew Robinson, is a collection of 43 biographies of a selection of the greatest scientists of all time. An updated paperback edition of the book entitled The Scientists: Pioneers of Discovery appeared in 2023.
Overview The book's chapters are contributed by various authors and cover the following scientists (some in pairs) in a number of parts:
Universe Nicolaus Copernicus Johannes Kepler Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton Michael Faraday James Clerk Maxwell Albert Einstein Edwin Powell Hubble
Earth James Hutton Charles Lyell Alexander von Humboldt Alfred Wegener
Molecules and matter Robert Boyle Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier John Dalton Dmitri Mendeleev August Kekulé Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
Inside the atom Marie Curie and Pierre Curie Ernest Rutherford Niels Bohr Linus Carl Pauling Enrico Fermi Hideki Yukawa
Life Carl Linnaeus Jan IngenHousz Charles Darwin Gregor Mendel Jan Purkinje Santiago Ramón y Cajal Francis Crick and James Watson
Body and mind Andreas Vesalius William Harvey Louis Pasteur Francis Galton Sigmund Freud Alan Turing John von Neumann Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey
Translations The book has been translated into a number of languages other than English:
Czech: Vědci, Slovart, 2013. Dutch: De Grote Wetenschappers, Fontaine Uitgevers, 2013. German: Faszination Forschung, Parthas Verlag, 2013. Japanese: 世界の科学者図鑑, Hara Shobo, 2013. Korean: The Great Scientists / 위대한 과학자들, Knowledge Gallery, 2012. Spanish: Los Grandes Científicos, Lunwerg Editores, 2012. Turkish: Bilim Insanlari, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2013. Vietnamese: Những Nhà Khoa Học, Kim Đồng Publishing House, 2017.
Reviews The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including:
Amazon The Bulletin of The Royal College of Pathologists Choice The Irish Times The Lancet Nature San Francisco Book Review Science News The Scotsman
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