Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

9781917109109Never Gave Up Just Gave BackSarah JouaultA hundred of us stand on the edge of Swanley Lake, Kent, on the morning of 19 September 2004....

In the last 130 years, 30 Swiss people have won a Nobel Prize, and one of them is Richard R. Ernst. He laid the foundation for magnetic resonance i...

A major biography of the brilliant naturalist, traveler, humanitarian, and codiscoverer of natural selectionAlfred Russel Wallace (18231913) was pe...

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (16461716) was the Benjamin Franklin of Europe, a universal genius who ranged across many fields and made breakthroughs i...

Published in 1994: This book is to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of Heinrich Hertzs death at the terribly young age of thirty-six. The ...

A revisionist, completely accessible and radically inclusive history of maths'Lively, satisfying, good at explaining difficult concepts' The Sunday...

The second edition of Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America updates Edwin Dansons definitive history of ...

Before the Manhattan Project, before nuclear warfare and the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, there was the twentieth century's great scientific ...

Surgical Wisdom for Embracing Your Inner BeautyTake control of your plastic surgery journey by using medical authors Robert A. Hardesty, MD, FACS, ...

Using the Parallel Lives approach adopted by the Greek biographer Plutarch, noted historian of astronomy William Sheehan contrasts the lives and re...

The names 'Keith Duckworth' and 'DFV' are practically synonymous, such is the reputation of the famous F1 racing engine which he designed. Whilst ...

Dyma gyfrol syn rhoi darlun o fywyd a gwaith y ffisegydd o Gymro, yr Athro Evan James Williams, gr a gafodd ei ddisgrifio fel un or gwyddonwyr mwya...

To escape the tough streets of Southeast Washington, D.C. in the late 1980s, young Rodney Stotts would ride the metro to the Smithsonian National Z...