Britannica Guide to the 100 Most Influential Scientists of All Time
1st Edition
Published on 1. January 2010
361 pages
978-1-61530-040-2 (ISBN)
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Leonardo da Vinci's study of mechanics led to the creation of early prototypes of flying machines and submarines. Biologist Carolus Linnaeus pioneered the hierarchal system of taxonomic classification in use today, Barbara McClintock's genetics research g
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Content
- BOOK COVER
- TITLE
- COPYRIGHT
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ASCLEPIUS
- HIPPOCRATES
- LIFE AND WORKS
- HIPPOCRATIC OATH
- INFLUENCE
- ARISTOTLE
- PHYSICS AND METAPHYSICS
- PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
- PLINY THE ELDER
- INFLUENCE
- PTOLEMY
- GALEN OF PERGAMUM
- ANATOMICAL AND MEDICAL STUDIES
- INFLUENCE
- AVICENNA
- ROGER BACON
- UNIVERSITY AND SCIENTIFIC CAREER
- THE ORDER OF FRIARS MINOR
- LEONARDO DA VINCI
- ANATOMICAL STUDIES AND DRAWINGS
- MECHANICS AND COSMOLOGY
- LEONARDO AS ARTIST SCIENTIST
- NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
- SCIENCE OF THE STARS
- AN ORDERLY UNIVERSE
- PARACELSUS
- EDUCATION
- CAREER AT BASEL
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO MEDICINE
- ANDREAS VESALIUS
- LIFE
- ASSESSMENT
- TYCHO BRAHE
- GIORDANO BRUNO
- WORKS
- FINAL YEARS
- INFLUENCE
- GALILEO
- TELESCOPIC DISCOVERIES
- GALILEO'S COPERNICANISM
- JOHANNES KEPLER
- WILLIAM HARVEY
- DISCOVERY OF CIRCULATION
- RENAISSANCE INFLUENCES
- STUDIES OF REPRODUCTION
- ROBERT BOYLE
- ANTONIE VAN LEEUWENHOEK
- ROBERT HOOKE
- JOHN RAY
- EDUCATION AND EXPEDITIONS
- IMPORTANT PUBLICATIONS
- SIR ISAAC NEWTON
- THE OPTICKS
- THE PRINCIPIA
- CAROLUS LINNAEUS
- THE "SEXUAL SYSTEM" OF CLASSIFICATION
- CLASSIFICATION BY "NATURAL CHARACTERS"
- BINOMIAL NOMENCLATURE
- OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS
- HENRY CAVENDISH
- RESEARCH IN CHEMISTRY
- EXPERIMENTS WITH ELECTRICITY
- JOSEPH PRIESTLEY
- WORK IN ELECTRICITY
- THE CHEMISTRY OF GASES
- THE DISCOVERY OF OXYGEN AND THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION
- TURMOIL AND EXILE
- LUIGI GALVANI
- EARLY YEARS
- ELECTRICAL NATURE OF NERVE IMPULSE
- SIR WILLIAM HERSCHEL
- DISCOVERY OF URANUS
- THEORY OF THE EVOLUTION OF STARS
- THEORY OF THE STRUCTURE OF NEBULAE
- ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER
- PNEUMATIC CHEMISTRY
- CONSERVATION OF MASS
- PHLOGISTON THEORY
- OXYGEN THEORY OF COMBUSTION
- THE CHEMICAL REVOLUTION
- PIERRE-SIMON LAPLACE
- EDWARD JENNER
- JOHN DALTON
- EARLY SCIENTIFIC CAREER
- ATOMIC THEORY
- GEORGES CUVIER
- ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT
- EXPEDITION TO SOUTH AMERICA
- PROFESSIONAL LIFE IN PARIS
- LATER YEARS
- ANDRÉ-MARIE AMPÈRE
- EARLY LIFE
- FOUNDING OF ELECTROMAGNETISM
- AMEDEO AVOGADRO
- EDUCATION AND EARLY CAREER
- MOLECULAR HYPOTHESIS OF COMBINING GASES
- LEGACY
- JOSEPH-LOUIS GAY-LUSSAC
- SEARCHING FOR LAWS OF NATURE
- OTHER RESEARCHES
- RIVALRY WITH DAVY
- APPLIED SCIENCE
- SIR HUMPHRY DAVY
- EARLY CAREER
- MAJOR DISCOVERIES
- JÖNS JACOB BERZELIUS
- ELECTROCHEMICAL DUALISM
- STOICHIOMETRY
- ATOMISM AND NOMENCLATURE
- MINERALOGY
- ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
- A MAN OF INFLUENCE
- JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
- MICHAEL FARADAY
- EARLY CAREER
- THEORY OF ELECTROCHEMISTRY
- LATER LIFE
- SIR CHARLES LYELL
- NEW APPROACH TO GEOLOGY
- SCIENTIFIC EMINENCE
- LOUIS AGASSIZ
- EARLY CAREER
- ACTIVITIES IN THE UNITED STATES
- CHARLES DARWIN
- THE BEAGLE VOYAGE
- EVOLUTION BY NATURAL SELECTION
- ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
- THE PATRIARCH IN HIS HOME LABORATORY
- THE PRIVATE MAN AND THE PUBLIC DEBATE
- SIR FRANCIS GALTON
- TRAVELS AND EXPLORATION
- ADVOCACY OF EUGENICS
- REPUTATION
- GREGOR MENDEL
- EARLY CAREER
- EXPERIMENTAL PERIOD
- THEORETICAL INTERPRETATION
- REDISCOVERY
- LOUIS PASTEUR
- EARLY CAREER
- RESEARCH ON FERMENTATION
- SPONTANEOUS GENERATION AND PASTEURIZATION
- RESEARCH ON SILKWORMS AND BREWING
- RESEARCH ON VACCINES
- ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE
- EARLY TRAVELS
- EVOLUTIONARY THEORY
- WILLIAM THOMSON
- UNIFIED THEORY
- TRANSATLANTIC CABLE
- LATER CAREER
- JOSEPH LISTER
- EDUCATION
- WORK IN ANTISEPSIS
- JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
- EARLY CAREER
- RESEARCH ON ELECTROMAGNETISM
- OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO PHYSICS
- DMITRY IVANOVICH MENDELEYEV
- FORMULATION OF THE PERIODIC LAW
- OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS
- IVAN PETROVICH PAVLOV
- LAWS OF CONDITIONED REFLEX
- ASSESSMENT
- A.A. MICHELSON
- ROBERT KOCH
- ANTHRAX RESEARCH
- CONTRIBUTIONS TO GENERAL BACTERIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY
- STUDIES OF TUBERCULOSIS AND CHOLERA
- SIGMUND FREUD
- EARLY TRAINING
- PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY
- SCREEN MEMORIES
- THE INTERPRETATION OF DREAMS
- FURTHER THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT
- PSYCHONEUROSES AND ANALYSIS
- ID, EGO, AND SUPEREGO
- MAX PLANCK
- ENERGY AND THERMODYNAMICS
- PLANCK'S RADIATION LAW
- LATER CAREER
- NETTIE MARIA STEVENS
- WILLIAM BATESON
- PIERRE CURIE
- MARIE CURIE
- HENRIETTA SWAN LEAVITT
- ERNEST RUTHERFORD
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
- MCGILL UNIVERSITY
- UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
- THE RUTHERFORD GOLD-FOIL EXPERIMENT
- THE RUTHERFORD ATOMIC MODEL
- RETURN TO CAMBRIDGE
- CARL JUNG
- ASSOCIATION WITH FREUD
- CHARACTER OF HIS PSYCHOTHERAPY
- ALBERT EINSTEIN
- SPECIAL RELATIVITY
- GENERAL RELATIVITY
- DELAYED CONFIRMATION
- COMING TO AMERICA
- PERSONAL SORROW
- PROFESSIONAL ISOLATION
- ASSESSMENT
- ALFRED LOTHAR WEGENER
- SIR ALEXANDER FLEMING
- EARLY CAREER
- DISCOVERY OF PENICILLIN
- NIELS BOHR
- BOHR ATOMIC MODEL
- COPENHAGEN INTERPRETATION OF QUANTUM MECHANICS
- NUCLEAR PHYSICS
- SPLITTING THE ATOM
- THE ATOMIC BOMB
- ERWIN SCHRÖDINGER
- SELMAN ABRAHAM WAKSMAN
- EDWIN POWELL HUBBLE
- LINUS PAULING
- ELUCIDATION OF MOLECULAR STRUCTURES
- HUMANITARIAN ACTIVITIES
- LATER YEARS
- ENRICO FERMI
- EUROPEAN CAREER
- AMERICAN CAREER
- MARGARET MEAD
- BARBARA MCCLINTOCK
- LEAKEY FAMILY
- LOUIS S. B. LEAKEY
- MARY DOUGLAS LEAKEY
- RICHARD LEAKEY
- GEORGE GAMOW
- J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
- HANS BETHE
- EARLY WORK
- FROM ATOMIC WARRIOR TO "POLITICAL PHYSICIST"
- MARIA GOEPPERT MAYER
- RACHEL CARSON
- JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU
- LUIS W. ALVAREZ
- ALAN M. TURING
- EARLY LIFE AND CAREER
- CODE BREAKER
- COMPUTER DESIGNER
- ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE PIONEER
- NORMAN ERNEST BORLAUG
- JONAS EDWARD SALK
- SIR FRED HOYLE
- FRANCIS HARRY COMPTON CRICK
- JAMES DEWEY WATSON
- RICHARD P. FEYNMAN
- ROSALIND FRANKLIN
- EDWARD O. WILSON
- JANE GOODALL
- SIR HAROLD W. KROTO
- RICHARD E. SMALLEY
- ROBERT F. CURL, JR.
- STEPHEN JAY GOULD
- STEPHEN W. HAWKING
- J. CRAIG VENTER
- FRANCIS COLLINS
- STEVEN PINKER
- GLOSSARY
- FOR FURTHER READING
- INDEX
