Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

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...

In 1867, John Muir set out on foot to explore the botanical wonders of the South, keeping a detailed journal of his adventures as he traipsed from ...

A fascinating, well-documented biography. --New York Times Book Review A monumental effort. --New York Review of Books An excellent piece of scie...

'To be a good doctor you have to be a compassionate chameleon, a shape shifter - a shaman. Even if your adaptation to your patients' world happens ...

The first biography of the writer/naturalist, and one of the leading founders of the modern environmental movement, Henry Beston. In September of 1...

Filling notebook after notebook with sketches, inventions, and theories, Leonardo da Vinci (14521519) not only stands as one of the most exceptiona...

Much has been written about Neil Armstrong, America's modern hero and history's most famous space traveler. Yet shy of fame and never one to steal ...

This is the 17th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and ...

As the pioneer of modern neuroscience, Santiago Ramón y Cajal may be the most influential figure in the history of biology youve never heard of. Al...

This is a definitive, deeply researched biography of Russian physiologist Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) and is the first scholarly biography to be publis...

Steven Weinberg shares his candid thoughts, in his own words, on theoretical physics and cosmology, along with personal anecdotes and recollections...