Scientists and Their Discoveries

by Christine Hatt

Overview

Scientists and their Discoveries looks at the lives and achievements of many of the scientists who have transformed the world with discoveries ranging from tiny subatomic particles to the massive and powerful mechanisms that drive the Earth and the stars—Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Harry Hess, and many more. It examines their ideas and how they affected society, highlighting their work which was a mixture of experiment, collaboration and brilliant individual insight that has characterized scientific advance down the ages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781842349540
Publisher:	Cherrytree Books
Publication date:	06/01/2020
Series:	Documenting the Past
Pages:	64
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 11.40(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Christine Hatt is the author of the Dress Sense series, the History in Writing series, and the Judge for Yourself series.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Looking at Documents 6

Astronomers 8

Henry Russell 8

Edwin Hubble 10

George Gamow 12

Stephen Hawking 16

Chemists 18

John Dalton 18

Dmitri Mendeleev 20

Marie Curie 22

Dorothy Hodgkin 26

Physicists 28

Michael Faraday 28

James Clerk Maxwell 30

Ernest Rutherford 32

Albert Einstein 34

Geologists 38

Charles Lyell 38

Alfred Wegener 40

Harry Hess 44

Biologists 46

Charles Darwin 46

Gregor Mendel 50

Louis Pasteur 52

Alexander Fleming 54

Crick and Watson 56

Conclusion 58

Glossary 60

Index 62