Biography: Science, Technology & Medicine

William Yarrell (1784-1856) was an influential naturalist at a time when natural history was becoming an important factor in 19th century society. ...

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Reid Antony Railton, Cheshire-born automotive engineer par excellence, created an extraordinary range of cars. He rose to renown during the 1930s a...

What does it take to be an inventor? Judging by the ingenious individuals who have come into The Life Scientific studio in the last eight years, th...

This fascinating volume resulted from one mans frustration with the series of whitewashed obituaries and laudations he had to endure in his long ca...

The daring flights of the early balloonists that were the first steps on mankinds upward journey to the Moon and beyond have been strangely neglect...

In 1660, at the age of thirteen, Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) began her study of butterfly metamorphosis-years before any other scientist publi...

Isaac Newton is generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history, yet the spectrum of his interests was much broader than that of a ...

No Ordinary Surgeon centres around one of our most photographed works of art the Boudicca group on the Thames Embankment opposite the Houses of Pa...

As a young man, Graeme Clark read about Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie and other great scientists, little knowing that one day he would join their rank...

'An enchanting bookpoignant and passionate.' Geographical 'A captivating and absorbing account.' Sir David Attenborough Madagascar is one of the ...

Thomas Telford's life was extraordinary: born in the Lowlands of Scotland, where his father worked as a shepherd, he ended his days as the most rev...

Since the 1950s, the death rate from heart attacks has plunged from 35 percent to about 5 percentand fatalistic attitudes toward this disease and m...

Quantum Leap uses key events in the life of Polkinghorne to introduce the central ideas that make science and religion such a fascinating field of ...