Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

Jeff Gray won the Distinguished Flying Medal in command of a Lancaster bomber. After the war he flew the York, Hermes, Stratocruiser, Comet 4, and ...

During a discussion of how women are treated in traditionally male-dominated fields, paleobotanist Ellen Currano lamented to filmmaker Lexi Jamieso...

In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment...

Very few individuals can truthfully say that their work impacts every person on earth. Forrest Galante is one of them. As a wildlife biologist and...

Discover one of the Scottish Enlightenment''s brightest stars. Among the giants of the Scottish Enlightenment, the name of James Hutton is overl...

This book traces memoirs of a family doctor who shunned the notion of becoming a physician as he observed his family doctor father while growing up...

Amity Reed became a midwife to serve women, but the reality of working in over-stretched and underfunded NHS maternity services soon shattered her ...

Combining memoir and studies in the Environmental Humanities, Black Swan Song weaves together an autobiographically-based account of the unique lif...

She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path. Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Kor...

She was everything everyone else wanted her to be. Until she followed her own path.Helena Rho was six years old when her family left Seoul, Korea, ...

Sir, your sons have been in a car accident. How quickly can you get here?Join Pastor Jeremy Freeman as he shares how the harrowing phone call that ...

A multi-award-winning Italian debut, from a bold and original new voice in contemporary queer literature. Jonathan is 31 years old, living in Milan...

A comprehensive look at the mathematics, physics, and philosophy of Henri PoincaréHenri Poincaré (18541912) was not just one of the most inventive,...

Many people know that Albert Einstein was a brilliant theoretical physicist who revolutionised modern science. What they may not know is that he on...

An insightful exploration of what social media, AI, robot technology, and the digital world are doing to our relationships with each other and with...

A man and his equation: the anxiety-plagued nineteenth-century physicist who contributed significantly to our understanding of the second law of th...

How forty years of research on thirty neurons in the stomach of a lobster has yielded valuable insights for the study of the human brain. Neuros...

Many people know that Tesla was a scientific genius, instrumental in developing modern electricity and communications. What, perhaps, they dont kno...

Isaac Newton and the England he knew: the people, places and events that shaped history''s greatest scientist. Across nine decades, Isaac Newton...

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An illustrated biography of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-59), the foremost engineer in an age of great engineers, when the Industrial Revolution w...

Dr. Glenn W. Geelhoed is a medical doctor, humanitarian, and the founder of Mission to Heal, an organization through which he has been conducting m...

Isaac Newton was accorded a semi-divine status in the 18th and 19th centuries, whereby his image linked together religion and science. The real hum...

This book, aimed at the general reader, is the first full-length biography of George Boole (1815 - 1864) who has been variously described as the fo...

A finely drawn portrait of Einstein's sixteen months in PragueIn the spring of 1911, Albert Einstein moved with his wife and two sons to Prague, th...

One day in 1996, the neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel took a call from his program officer at the National Institute of Mental Health, who informed hi...