Makers of science
By: Michael Allaby & Derek Gjertsen.
Contributors: Gjertsen, Derek.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: Scientists -- Biography.; Science -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: Five volumes present the lives and work of more than 40 great Western physicists, chemists, biologists, physiologists, and more. Each biography includes two timelines: scientific and political-cultural.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Table of contents: title: v.1: Aristotle; title: Copernicus; title: Galileo; title: Kepler; title: Hewton; title: Linnaeus; title: Lavoisier.; title: v.2: Watt; title: Jenner; title: Humboldt; title: Faraday; title: Darwin; title: Babbage; title: Pasteur; title: Mendel.; title: v.3: Mendeleev; title: Edison; title: Bell; title: The Curies; title: Haber; title: Einstein; title: Wegener; title: Fleming.; title: v.4: Bohr & Heisenberg; title: Hubble; title: Pauling; title: McClintock; title: The Leakeus; title: Oppenheimer; title: Calvin; title: Turing; title: Salk; title: Elion.; title: v.5: Feyman; title: Crick; title: Franklin, & Watson; title: Hawking.