Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

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...

Fazlur Rahman's mother died tragically when he was only seven years old, but her words reverberated throughout his life: Someday you will be a doct...

Fazlur Rahman's mother died tragically when he was only seven years old, but her words reverberated throughout his life: Someday you will be a doct...

Compiled from hours of interviews drawn from the eponymous National Geographic documentary, this inspiring book from world-renowned infectious dise...

For this edition, Rashke has added a preface and three short chapters that explore what has been released and learned about the Silkwood case since...

This volume covers one of the most thrilling two-year periods in twentieth-century physics, as matrix mechanicsdeveloped chiefly by W. Heisenberg, ...