Title: Random House Webster's dictionary of scientists
Description: In clear, jargon-free language, the Random House Webster's Dictionary of Scientists offers 1,800 biographies of scientific genius: from Ptolemy to Feynman, Hippocrates to Curie, Galileo to Oppenheimer. Over half of these up-to-the-minute biographies deal with scientists of the 20th century, with more profiles of women in science than any other book. With over 400 photos, illustrations, and quotations, you are able to obtain a richer view of the person and the life behind the scientific mind.

The fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, engineering and technology, geology, mathematics, and physics are chronologically recorded and explained from the origins of scientific practice through their contemporary advancement.
Subjects: Biographies, Science, Histoire, Dictionaries, Sciences, Biography, Scientists, Scientifiques, Dictionnaires anglais, History