100 Most Popular Scientists for Young Adults

Name: 100 Most Popular Scientists for Young Adults | Biographical Sketches and Professional Paths
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Biographical Sketches and Professional Paths

Kendall Haven Donna Clark(Autor*in)

Lu Academic Cloth & Paper (Verlag)

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Erschienen am 15. Mai 1999

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Intro
Table of Contents
Introduction
How to Use This Book
Luis Alvarez, "The Wild Idea Man"
Isaac Asimov, "From Science Fact to Science Fiction"
Robert Bakker, "Hot Blooded Dinosaurs"
Robert Ballard, "Titanic Discoveries"
John Bardeen, "Taming the Transistor"
George Beadle, "Bread Mold to Nobel Prize"
Jacob Bjerknes, "The King of Atmospheric Sciences"
Niels Bohr, "Cracking the Code"
Max Born, "Quantum Career"
Jane Brody, "From Test Tube to Sauce Pan"
David Brower, "Our Number 1 Conservationist"
Luther Burbank, "The Plant Wizard"
Jocelyn Bell Burnell, "A Little Bit of Scruff"
Nolan Bushnell, "King Pong"
Wallace Carothers, "Mr. Nylon"
Rachel Carson, "The World Took a New Direction"
George Washington Carver, "The Plant Doctor
Karen Chin, "Messing Around with Dinosaur Poop"
Bernard Chouet, "The Earth, My Laboratory"
Eugenie Clark, "Shark Lady"
Albert Claude, "The Founder of Modern Cell Biology"
Jewel Plummer Cobb, "The Best Pathway"
Stanley Cohen, "Factoring the Growth of Cells"
Barry Commoner, "The Paul Revere of Ecology"
Gerty Radnitz Cori, "Lifting Nature's Veil"
Jacques Cousteau, "Studying the Drowned Museum"
Francis Crick, "The Most Significant Discovery of the Century"
Marie Curie, "A New Age of Science"
Jean Dausset, "Typing Tissues"
Paul Dirac, "Quantum Mathematics"
Benjamin Duggar, "The Wonder Drug"
Paul Ehrlich, "Breeding Ourselves into Oblivion"
Albert Einstein, "The Troubled Amateur"
Loren Eiseley, "The Gift of Tongues"
Gertrude Elion, "The Real Reward"
Philo T. Farnsworth, "Father of Television"
Enrico Fermi, "Navigating into a New World"
Richard P. Feynman, "The Most Brilliant Young Physicist"
Dian Fossey, "The Old Lady Who Lives in the Forest"
Rosalind Franklin, "The Outsider"
Dennis Gabor, "My Luckiest Find Yet"
William Gates, "Best Hacker in the Group"
Hans Geiger, "Mister Counter"
Robert Hutchings Goddard, "The Moon-Rocket Man"
Jane Goodall, "The White-Skinned Ape"
Gordon Gould, "A Flash of Insight"
Stephen Jay Gould, "A New Explanation"
George Hale, "Bigger Is Better"
Alice Hamilton, "Exploring the Dangerous Trades"
Wesley Harris, "A Shining Example"
Stephen Hawking, "Finding the Big Bang"
Werner Heisenberg, "The Birth of Uncertainty"
Warren Henry, "Leaving His Mark"
Matthew Henson, "A Special Kind of Scientist"
Harry Hess, "Seafloor Spreading"
Ted Hoff, "The Computer on a Chip"
Robert Hofstadter, "Into the Sun: Peering Inside the Nucleus"
Arthur Holmes, "Dating the Age of the Earth"
Edwin Hubble, "Measuring the Stars"
Shirley Jackson, "Superconductivity and Super Conduct"
Jack Kilby, "Breaking the Tyranny of Numbers"
Edwin Land, "Instant Success"
Ernest Lawrence, "Accelerating the Search"
Louis Leakey, "The Black Man with a White Face"
Edward Lorenz, "The Butterfly Effect"
Shannon Lucid, "Patient Explorer"
Maria Goeppert Mayer, "The Madonna of the Onion"
Barbara McClintock, "Jumpin' Genes"
Margaret Mead, "Education for Choice"
Lise Meitner, "The Discovery of the Century"
Albert Michelson, "Faster Than a Speeding Light Beam"
Cynthia Moss, "The Elephant Bug"
John Muir, "Father of Our National Parks"
Bill Nye, "The Science Guy"
Julius Robert Oppenheimer, "Father of the Bomb"
Wolfgang Pauli, "The Conscience of Physics"
Linus Pauling, "The Unconventional Genius"
Roger Penrose, "The Math Wizard"
Max Planck, "Planck's Constant and the Foundation of Quantum Understanding"
Wilhelm Reich, "Father of the Sexual Revolution"
Charles Richter, "Measuring the Beast"
Sally Ride, "The Most Fun I'll Ever Have"
Albert Sabin, "A Better Vaccine"
Florence Rena Sabin, "The Little Doctor"
Carl Sagan, "The Cosmic Explainer"
Jonas E. Salk, "The Total Conquest of Polio"
Albert Schweitzer, "Reverence for Life"
Glenn Seaborg, "Father of the Transuranic Elements"
Roger Sperry, "A Brain for the Brain"
James Starrs, "Leading the Science Orchestra"
Howard Temin, "Information Transfer"
Nikola Tesla, "Lightning in His Hands"
James Van Allen, "Mapping Belts in the Sky"
Wernher von Braun, "The Father of NASA"
An Wang, "Technology Visionary"
Annie Wauneka, "Badge Woman"
Cyril Wecht, "Modern Murder Mysteries"
Steve Wozniak, "The Electronic Whiz Kid"
Chien-Shiung Wu, "Courageous Hero"
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, "The Fighter"
Appendix A Internet References
Appendix B Scientists by Field of Specialization
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