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Author:   Andrew Robinson
Publisher:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Imprint:   Thames & Hudson Ltd
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9780500297063

ISBN 10:   0500297061
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   26 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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

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'Excellent ... of broad interest to scientists and non-scientists alike' - The Lancet 'A sampler of the driven, complex, fascinating characters who fomented scientific revolutions' - Nature

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Andrew Robinson is the author of twenty-five books in the arts and sciences, including biographies of Albert Einstein, Thomas Young, Michael Ventris and Jean-François Champollion. He holds degrees from Oxford University and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, has been a Visiting Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge, and is currently a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society.

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