biographies of scientists

Explore in-depth biographies of famous scientists, featuring their groundbreaking discoveries and life stories. Discover the best books on scientific pioneers across history.

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Galileo at work

 

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Einstein

by Walter Isaacson

The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature …
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Genius

by James Gleick

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could …
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The Pleasure Of Finding Things Out

 

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Classic Feynman

by Richard Phillips Feynman

An omnibus edition of classic adventure tales by the Nobel Prize-winning physicist includes his exchanges with Einstein and Bohr, ideas about gambling with Nick the …
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The Man Who Knew Infinity

by Robert Kanigel

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL! A moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy …
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

 

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The Electric Life of Michael Faraday

by Alan Hirshfeld

Tells the story of Michael Faraday, who was a poor, uneducated bookbinder's apprentice who overcame adversity and class prejudice in nineteenth-century England to emerge as …
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Prime Obsession

by John Derbyshire

The definitive story of the Riemann Hypothesis, a fascinating and epic mathematical mystery that continues to challege the world. In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known …
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries)

by Barbara Goldsmith

Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human …