Scientists Who Changed the World (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Gray Poole, Lynn Poole
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: c. 460 to 1955
- Setting: Greece, Poland, France, Italy, England, the South Seas, the United States, Germany, Austria, and New Zealand
- Principal Characters: Hippocrates, Nicolaus Copernicus, William Harvey, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Joseph Lister, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Doctors, Surgery or surgeons, Biography, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts, Technology, Astronomy or astronomers, Research, Physics or physicists, Relativity
- Locales: France, United States, England, Germany, Italy, Greece, Austria, Poland, New Zealand, South Sea
Form and Content
In order to choose the scientists who would rate mention in Scientists Who Changed the World, Lynn and Gray Poole contacted more than one hundred scholars and scientists and asked them to make lists of only those scientists whose courage enabled them to devise new and revolutionary ways of thinking in their fields. These lists were then compiled and biographical sketches written of those who were chosen unanimously.
When these biographies are read together, a picture emerges that can be encouraging to young people. This is particularly the case...
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