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Microbe Hunters
Presents twelve stories of the men who pioneered the study of bacteriology.
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Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of Marie Curie (Great Discoveries)
Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a …
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A Feeling for the Organism, 10th Aniversary Edition
For much of her life she worked alone, brilliant but eccentric, with ideas that made little sense to her colleagues. Yet before DNA and the molecular revolution, Barbara McClintock's tireless …
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A Life in Science
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Into the Past
Phillip Tobias is best known for his pioneering work at South Africa's famous fossil hominid sites, such as Sterkfontein, and for his quarter-century partnership with Louis and Mary Leakey, studying …
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Memoir of a Thinking Radish
This fascinating volume presents the memoirs and reflections of Peter Medawar--the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and highly acclaimed author of Pluto's Republic, Aristotle to Zoos, and The Limits of Science. The …
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The Excitement and Fascination of Science
Vol. 2, with subtitle Reflections by eminent scientists, compiled by W. C. Gibson.
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Changing Patterns
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Hans Krebs
Reconstructs the investigative pathway and the life of Hans Krebs, from the time of his arrival in England in 1933 until 1937, when he made the discovery for which he …
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Hans Krebs: The formation of a scientific life, 1900-1933
The biography of one of the world's foremost biochemists, which traces his scientific career and his discoveries of the urea cycle and the citric acid cycle. The text makes use …
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Meselson, Stahl, and the Replication of DNA
In 1957 two young scientists produced an experiment confirming that DNA replicates as predicted by the double helix structure Watson and Cricks had proposed.
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Nature's Robots
The authorÆs strike out in search of proteins, those molecular workhorses who labor at the heart of every living process, helping readers unravel the secret of one of natureÆs most …
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George Beadle, an Uncommon Farmer
"The authors explore Beadle's life and scientific accomplishments against the backdrop of classical genetics, and discuss the development of the new genetics as well as his interactions with the majot …
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Investigative Pathways
This fascinating book is an investigation of scientific creativity. Following the research pathways of outstanding scientists over the past three centuries, it finds common features in their careers and their …
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Time, Love, Memory
The story of Nobel Prize–winning discoveries regarding the molecular mechanisms controlling the body’s circadian rhythm. How much of our fate is decided before we are born? Which of our characteristics …
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Reconceiving the Gene
This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage …
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The Electric Life of Michael Faraday
Tells the story of Michael Faraday, who was a poor, uneducated bookbinder's apprentice who overcame adversity and class prejudice in nineteenth-century England to emerge as the greatest experimental scientist of …
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True Genius
What is genius? Define it. Now think of scientists who embody the concept of genius. Does the name John Bardeen spring to mind? Indeed, have you ever heard of him? …
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Fermat's Enigma
xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to …
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Genius
To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely …
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Alcoholism Treatment
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Capillarity and Wetting Phenomena
The study of capillarity is in the midst of a veritable explosion. What is offered here is not a comprehensive review of the latest research but rather a compendium of …
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Petit Point
Captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and industrial world in bite-size stories.
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Fragile Objects
Written by 1991 Nobel laureate Pierre Gilles de Gennes, this fascinating book addresses topics ranging from soft-matter physics to the activities of science: the role of individual or team work, …
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Dorothy Hodgkin
A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning chemist and peace activist, this work paints a portrait of an accomplished woman who combined an ambitious career with family responsibilities, often at great …
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The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis (Great Discoveries)
A narrative of one of the key turning points in medical history.