Scientists An Epic of Discovery

Name: Scientists An Epic of Discovery
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ISBN: 9780500251911

ISBN-10: 0500251916

ISBN-13: 9780500251911

Edition: 2012

Authors: Naomi Pasachoff, Jay Pasachoff, Robert Iliffe, Frank A. J. L. James, Jordi Cat

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The ideas, experiments, and inventions of great scientists have revolutionizedour understanding of the world around us. Theories, discoveries,and technologies—from relativity, the genetic code, and the periodictable to synthetic drugs, nuclear weapons, and brain scans—have transformedthe physical world and our lives.Copernicus, Crick, Watson, Galileo, Marie Curie: these are some ofthe forty pioneers behind modern science whose stories are exploredhere. The scientists come from around the globe and represent multiplenationalities—American, English, German, French, Dutch, Czech,Indian, Japanese, and more. Often unorthodox thinkers, they frequentlyhad to struggle against hostile contemporaries…

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List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Thames & Hudson, Limited
Publication date: 9/17/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 7.68" wide x 10.04" long x 1.34" tall
Weight: 2.574
Language: English

Jay Pasachoff is a Professor of Astronomy at Williams College. He is a veteran of 56 solar eclipse expeditions, which have taken him all over the world to study the sun over the sunspot cycle. He received the Education Prize from the American Astronomical Society. His undergraduate textbooks in astronomy have been widely used. He is already involved in planning for education and public outreach for the 2017 total solar eclipse for which totality will stretch from Oregon to South Carolina and for which the whole of the continental United States and Canada will see at least a partial eclipse.