Most Influential Scientists Who Changed the World
Published on 18. January 2024
286 pages
979-8-89113-294-8 (ISBN)
Description
There are a handful of famous mathematicians, scientists, investigators, and researchers who have shaped and influenced the world, and brought about significant changes in our lives. This book reviews these influential people, their lives, discoveries and inventions, and their impact. For many of them, their lives are equally as important as their insights, theories, and inventions. This book pays homage to what they have suffered and endured to provide for generations to follow them. Each one of these individuals has left their mark on the world, influenced their discipline, and deserve recognition. This book intends to honor them, and at the same time, educate the current generation that may not recognize their names or contributions to their field and to the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
File size
22,47 MB
ISBN-13
979-8-89113-294-8 (9798891132948)
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Michael F. Shaughnessy
The Most Influential Scientists Who Changed the World
Book
01/2024
Nova Science Publishers Inc
€303.55
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1
- Archimedes (287 BC-212 BC): Buoyancy, Levers, and War Machines
- Chapter 2
- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543): The Galaxies Do Not Revolve Around Us!
- Chapter 3
- An Interview about Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): He Avoided Being Burned at the Stake!
- Chapter 4
- Antony van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723): Father of Microbiology
- Chapter 5
- Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier (1743-1794): A Founding Parent of Chemistry
- Chapter 6
- Edward Jenner (1749-1823): Milkmaids, Cowpox, and the Devastating Smallpox
- Chapter 7
- Ignaz Semmelweis (1818-1865): Handwashing, the Dreaded Childbed Fever, and "Saviour of Mothers"
- Chapter 8
- Gregor Mendel (1822-1884). The Father of the Holy Grail of Modern Genetics: The Gene
- Chapter 9
- Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): A Founding Father of Microbiology and Biochemistry
- Chapter 10
- Joseph Lister (1827-1912): Antiseptics in the Surgical Theatre
- Chapter 11
- Robert Koch (1843-1910): Germs Can Cause Terrible Diseases!
- Chapter 12
- Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915): Magic Bullets, Antitoxin Therapy, and the Nobel Prize
- Chapter 13
- Frederick Gowland Hopkins (1861-1947): Amino Acids, Vitamins, and the Nobel Prize
- Chapter 14
- Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934): A Pioneering Scientist of Extraordinary Achievement
- Chapter 15
- Karl Landsteiner (1868-1943): The Blood Groupings
- Chapter 16
- Alexander Fleming (1881-1955): The Miracle Medicine of Penicillin
- Chapter 17
- Otto Warburg (1883-1970): The Vital Life Force, Cancer, and the Nobel Prize
- Chapter 18
- Linus Pauling (1901-1994): The "Boy Professor" and the Chemical Bonds that Form Life
- Chapter 19
- J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967): Physics Genius and Father of the Atomic Bomb
- Chapter 20
- Max Delbrück (1906-1981): Pioneer and Renaissance Man of Physics, Molecular Genetics, and DNA Recombination
- Chapter 21
- Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999): A Treatment for Gout and the Nobel Prize
- Chapter 22
- Frederick Sanger (1918-2013): Father of Sequences, Genomics, and Two Nobel Prizes
- Chapter 23
- Jane Wright (1919-2013): Medical Oncologist and Pioneer of Modern Cancer Chemotherapy
- Chapter 24
- Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958): Solving DNA, RNA, and Virus Structures, yet no Nobel Prize
- Chapter 25
- Jonas Salk (1921-1995): Vaccine Invention Leads to Polio Eradication from the Face of the Planet
- References
- About the Authors
- Index
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