Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors: An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the World (Lives and Legacies Series)

1181 Pages·1998·11.99 MB·English

by  Doris Simonis

Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors :
Lives and Legacies : an Encyclopedia of
title:
People Who Changed the World Lives and
Legacies
author: Simonis, Doris A.; Hertzenberg, Caroline.
publisher: Greenwood Publishing Group
isbn10 | asin: 1573561517
print isbn13: 9781573561518
ebook isbn13: 9780585067377
language: English
Scientists--Biography--Encyclopedias,
Mathematicians--Biography--
subject
Encyclopedias, Inventors--Biography--
Encyclopedias.
publication date: 1999
lcc: Q141.S54 1999eb
ddc: 509.2/2
Scientists--Biography--Encyclopedias,
Mathematicians--Biography--
subject:
Encyclopedias, Inventors--Biography--
Encyclopedias.
Page i
Lives and Legacies:
An Encyclopedia of People Who Changed the
World
Scientists, Mathematicians, and Inventors
Edited by Doris Simonis
Writers
Caroline Hertzenberg
John Luoma
Tami Schuyler
Jonathan Secaur
Doris Simonis
Daniel Steinberg
Valerie Tomaselli
Gayle Weaver
Kelly Wilson
ORYX PRESS
1999
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The rare Arabian Oryx is believed to have inspired the myth of the
unicorn. This desert antelope became virtually extinct in the early
1960s. At that time several groups of international conservationists
arranged to have nine animals sent to the Phoenix Zoo to be the
nucleus of a captive breeding herd. Today the Oryx population is over
1,000, and over 500 have been returned to the Middle East.
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Simonis, Doris A.
Scientists, mathematicians, and inventors: lives and legacies: an
encyclopedia of people who changed the world / by Doris Simonis.
(Lives and legacies)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-57356-151-7 (alk. paper)
1. ScientistsBiographyEncyclopedias. 2. Mathematicians
BiographyEncyclopedias. 3. InventorsBiographyEncyclopedias.
I. Title. II. Series.
Q141.S54 1999
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Listing of Biographies iv
Introduction v-x
The Biographies
Biographies 1-200
Appendices, Bibliography, and Index
Appendix One: Timeline 203-208
Appendix Two: Geographic Listing of Biographies 209-214
Appendix Three: Listing of Biographies by 215-220
Discipline
Bibliography 221-226
Index 227-244
Page iv
LISTING OF BIOGRAPHIES
Abel, Niels Henrik
Agassiz, Louis, & Elizabeth Agassiz
Agnesi, Maria
Agricola, Georgius
Aiken, Howard Hathaway
Ampère, André
Appert, Nicolas-François
Archimedes
Arrhenius, Svante
Avogadro, Amedeo
Babbage, Charles
Bacon, Francis
Bardeen, John
Barton, Clara
Bateson, William
Becquerel, Antoine-Henri
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bernoulli, Jakob, & Johann Bernoulli
Bessel, Friedrich
Bessemer, Henry
Bjerknes, Vilhelm
Black, Joseph
Blackwell, Elizabeth
Bohr, Niels
Boltzmann, Ludwig
Boole, George
Borlaug, Norman Ernest
Born, Max
Bose, Satyendranath
Boyle, Robert
Brahe, Tycho
Braille, Louis
Bramah, Joseph
Brooks, Harriet
Brown, Robert
Buffon, Georges
Bunsen, Robert
Burbank, Luther
Cannon, Annie Jump
Carnot, Sadi
Carothers, Wallace
Carson, Rachel
Carver, George Washington
Cauchy, Augustin-Louis
Cavendish, Henry
Chadwick, James
Clausius, Rudolf
Comstock, Anna Botsford
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Cousteau, Jacques-Yves
Crick, Francis, & James Watson
Curie, Marie
Cuvier, Georges
Daguerre, Louis
Dalton, John
Darby, Abraham
Darwin, Charles
Davy, Humphry
Descartes, René
Diesel, Rudolf
Drew, Charles
Eastman, George
Edison, Thomas
Ehrlich, Paul
Einstein, Albert
Eratosthenes
Euclid
Euler, Leonhard
Everson, Carrie J.
Faraday, Michael
Fermat, Pierre de
Fermi, Enrico
Feynman, Richard
Fibonacci, Leonardo
Fleming, Alexander
Ford, Henry
Franklin, Benjamin
Franklin, Rosalind
Fraser-Reid, Bertram
Freud, Sigmund
Fuchs, Leonhard
Galen of Pergamum
Galilei, Galileo
Gates, Bill
Gauss, Carl Friedrich