Scientists Behind the Inventors (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Roger Burlingame
- First Published: 1960
- Time of Work: 1750–1950
- Setting: The United States and Europe
- Principal Characters: Joseph Black, Benjamin Silliman, Joseph Henry, Louis Pasteur, Michael Pupin, Pierre, Albert Einstein
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Biography, Inventions or inventors, Technology, Research, Physics or physicists, Chemistry or chemists, Relativity, Radioactivity
- Locales: Europe, United States
Form and Content
In Scientists Behind the Inventors, after an introductory chapter defining terms and presenting an overview of the history of science and technology in Europe and the United States from 1750 to 1950, Roger Burlingame analyzes the life and work of eight scientists. He examines six of them individually in a short, separate, and independent chapter, and Pierre and Marie Curie are discussed together. With the exception of Marie Curie, all the scientists are males, and the group consists of four Europeans, two Americans, and two European immigrants to the...
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