Book ID: CBB000101076

Portraits of Great American Scientists (2001)

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Lederman, Leon M. (Editor)
Scheppler, Judith A. (Editor)


Prometheus Books


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: 305 pp., illus., notes, bibl.
Language: English

Description Fifteen biographies written by students from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy, revealing the human factors that influenced the lives of successful scientists. Includes a range of personalities and disciplines: Clifford Geertz (cultural anthropology), Mary Claire-King (genetics), Marvin Minsky (artificial intelligence), Story Musgrave and Sally Ride (astronautics), Steven Pinker (psychology/cognitive science), F. Sherwood Rowland (chemistry), Vera Rubin (astronomy), Paul Sereno (paleontology), George Smoot (astrophysics), Charles Townes and Edward Witten (physics), Geerat Vermeij (geology), E. O. Wilson (sociobiology), and Dawn Wright (oceanography).


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Authors & Contributors
Lequeux, James
Frumer, Yulia
Wrathall, Mark A.
Tropp, E. A.
Terdimou, Maria
Ruggles, Clive L. N.
Concepts
Astronomy
Physics
Biographies
Astrophysics
Chemistry
Geology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
17th century
Prehistory
Places
Russia
Japan
Italy
France
Institutions
Wittwer
Jesuits (Society of Jesus)
American Institute of Physics
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