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An authoritative and accessible guide to the lives, labours, and achievements of the men and women who have shaped the world of science.

This new edition includes over 80 new biographies, focusing particularly on contemporary scientists, but also covering scientists not included in the previous edition. Also added for this edition are the selected bibliographies, chronologies, tables of scientific discoveries, and quotations.

• Over 80 new biographies added, focusing on women and ethnic minorities – ensuring the book is totally inclusive.
• Seven chronologies of the major sciences – offering an overview of developments in the major scientific disciplines.
• Table of scientific discoveries – an at-a-glance guide to major scientific figures and events.
• Selected bibliographies – suggesting further reading for those who want to know even more.
• Selected quotations – offering an insight into the minds of the greatest scientists.
• 90 photographs of scientists – see for yourself what some of the most famous scientists looked like.
• Historical reviews of the major sciences – creating a useful context for the individual biographies.
• Enlarged glossary of scientific terms – increasing understanding by explaining unfamiliar terms used in the biographies.

ISBN: 1-85986-304-3
Publication date: March 2000
Length: 512 pp per vol
Size: 246 × 189 mm (7¹/₂ × 9⁵/₈ in)