Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists
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Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

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Britannica Guide to 100 Most Influential Scientists

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

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The 100 Most Influential Scientists is part of the Britannica Guide Series that offers a look into 100 scientists from Ancient Greece to the present day. The Britannica Guides series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our time. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student, or traveler.

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Publisher
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Year
2008
ISBN
9781593398460
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Biografie nell'ambito delle scienze sociali

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. Thales of Miletus
  4. Pythagoras
  5. Hippocrates
  6. Plato
  7. Aristotle
  8. Euclid
  9. Archimedes
  10. Pliny the Elder
  11. Ptolemy
  12. Galen of Pergamum
  13. Al-Khwārizmī
  14. Avicenna
  15. Roger Bacon
  16. Leonardo da Vinci
  17. Nicolaus Copernicus
  18. Paracelsus
  19. Andreas Vesalius
  20. Tycho Brahe
  21. Girodano Bruno
  22. Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban
  23. Galileo Galilei
  24. Johannes Kepler
  25. William Harvey
  26. René Descartes
  27. Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke
  28. John Ray
  29. Sir Isaac Newton
  30. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  31. Leonhard Euler
  32. Carolus Linnaeus
  33. Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  34. Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
  35. Henry Cavendish
  36. Joseph Priestley
  37. James Watt
  38. Luigi Galvani and Conte Alessandro Volta
  39. Sir William Herschel and Caroline Herschel
  40. Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
  41. Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
  42. Edward Jenner
  43. Georges, Baron Cuvier
  44. Alexander von Humboldt
  45. Sophic Germain
  46. Carl Friedrich Gauss
  47. Sir Humphry Davy
  48. Jöns Jacob Berzelius
  49. John James Audubon
  50. Michael Faraday
  51. Charles Babbage and Ada King, countess of Lovelace
  52. Sir Charles Lyell, Baronet
  53. Louis Agassiz
  54. Charles Darwin
  55. Évariste Galois
  56. Sir Francis Galton
  57. Gregor Mendel
  58. Louis Pasteur
  59. Alfred Russel Wallace
  60. William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
  61. James Clerk Maxwell
  62. Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev
  63. Robert Koch
  64. Georg Cantor
  65. Henri Poincaré
  66. Sigmund Freud
  67. Nikola Tesla
  68. Max Planck
  69. William Bateson
  70. Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
  71. Sir Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson
  72. Carl Gustav Jung
  73. Albert Einstein
  74. Alfred Lothar Wegener
  75. Sir Alexander Fleming
  76. Niels Bohr
  77. Erwin Schrödinger
  78. Srinivasa Ramanujan
  79. Edwin Powell Hubble
  80. Enrico Fermi
  81. John von Neumann
  82. George Gamow
  83. J. Robert Oppenheimer
  84. Kurt Gödel
  85. Hans Bethe
  86. Rachel Carson
  87. Alan M. Turing
  88. Norman Ernest Borlaug
  89. Sir Fred Hoyle
  90. Francis Harry Compton Crick and James Dewey Watson
  91. Richard P. Feynman
  92. Rosalind Franklin
  93. Jack Kilby
  94. John Forbes Nash Jr
  95. Edward O. Wilson
  96. Jane Goodall
  97. Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, and Robert F. Curl Jr
  98. Stephen Jay Gould
  99. Stephen W. Hawking
  100. J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins
  101. Steven Pinker
  102. Sir Tim Berners-Lee
  103. Index