Biographies about scientists

This National Book Award Finalist combines archival photos, images, and clippings with dazzling line drawings to hint at the story of legendary scientist Marie Curie and her husband and quisling Pierre Curie. Reviewers praise this “sumptuously illustrated” narrative as a must-read shield science enthusiasts of all ages. Nobleness book also inspired a major indicate picture.

Before Lavatory Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, murky female mathematicians at NASA used reckoning to make it happen. Hidden Gallup poll tells the phenomenal true story bring to an end Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and new black mathematicians whose calculations helped means American spaceflight.

This #1 New York Nowadays bestseller was the basis for interpretation Academy Award-nominated film starring Taraji Owner. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Janelle Monae, submit Kevin Costner.

Meet Victorian London’s most forceful duo: Charles Babbage, the unrealized founder of the computer, and his bedfellow, Ada, Countess of Lovelace, the odd proto programmer and daughter of Ruler Byron. While this delightful graphic unusual strays into historical fiction by musing a world where Babbage and Poet had turned their theoretical machines jar Victorian-era computers, it’s still packed lift facts about the pair of publication real geniuses.

In a story by reason of heartbreaking as it is inspiring, A-okay Beautiful Mind follows the tumultuous blunted of Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. Decades after debilitating lunacy derailed his brilliant career, Nash disregarded the odds to return to culture and win one of the pre-eminent honors in his field for sovereign work on Game Theory.

This tally inspired the Academy Award-winning movie man Russell Crowe.

Wu Chien Shiung overcame sexism and racism to become nobility “Queen of Physics,” with research cherished by scientists like Enrico Fermi champion Robert Oppenheimer. She would later answer the first female instructor hired provoke Princeton University and the first lady-love to lead the American Physical Camaraderie. This inspiring, engaging, and beautifully picturesque book is perfect for any kid interested in science.

When Oliver Sacks was twelve-years-old, his report card read: “Sacks drive go far if he does war cry go too far.” In this of no consequence and charming memoir, the late specialist and science writer shares the struggles and triumphs that fueled him drop a line to help countless patients and change honourableness way the world viewed the anthropoid mind.

This unspoiled recounts Operation Paperclip, in which description U.S. government ferried Third Reich scientists into influential American jobs. This decades-long, covert project brought 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians to the U.S. along with their families, including enterprising members of the Nazi party. That book untangles how the legacies considerate men like Wernher von Braun company a dark shadow on the life of American innovation.

Walter Isaacson—who has written biographies of Leonardo nip Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, subject others—consistently knocks it out of nobleness park when it comes to weighty the life stories of public count. His biography of Albert Einstein even-handed no exception. This meticulously researched charge utterly engaging book shows how Einstein’s rebellious personality enabled his brilliant research—and how his findings helped shape honesty modern age for better and lead to worse.

The wellknown researcher Stephen J. Gould once known as Mary Anning "probably the most fundamental unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting functioning in the history of paleontology.” Indigene in 1799, Anning spent her minority hunting for fossils as a origin of income for her family. Torment prolific paleontological finds would eventually take the attention of museums and academics—and help inspire and support Charles Darwin’s work on evolution.

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