Makers of Science

Oxford University Press, New York

by Michael Allaby and Derek Gjertsen

Makers of Science
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ISBN (for the set) 0-19-521680-6

A set of five books on the lives of more than 40 great scientists.

Read about Aristotle, Kepler, Linnaeus, the Curies, Einstein, Barbara
McClintock, Richard Feynman, Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Jonas
Salk, and many more. In addition, there are brief biographies of more than
300 other scientists.

Each book is fully illustrated. There is a long list of further reading , including web sites, and a comprehensive glossary.