Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

Donna called 9-1-1. David slipped into a coma. At that moment, Donna was thrust onto the path of caregiver for her best friend and the love of her ...

Writing a memoir was not only an interesting experience for this Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, but it also provided him an o...

The leading Australian astronomer of his generation, John Bolton (192293), was born in Sheffield and educated at Cambridge University. After wartim...

Never Lose Your Nerve! chronicles the ups and downs of a Nobel Laureate's life. Professor Alan J Heeger was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in...

To keep the land in the family . . . To operate the land profitably . . . To leave the land better than they found it . . . Each year, Sand County ...

Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. While her h...

IN THE NEWSWeimin Wu: pioneer physicist on Chinese science's turbulent past, promising futureTimes Higher Education, 25 February 2016While the firs...

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...

Includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminde...

The inspirational autobiography of Britains beloved astronaut Tim Peake, the #1 bestselling author of Hello, is this Planet Earth? and Ask an Astro...

Previously published in paperback as October Sky. Three years in the life of Homer Sonny Hickam, from the moment he sees the Sputnik sate...