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From brainy biologists and clever chemists to magnificent mathematicians and pioneering physicists, discover 100 remarkable scientists who shaped our world.

Containing a universe of knowledge, 100 Scientists Who Made History tells the story of the people who increased our grasp of almost everything around us. From Aristotle and Rosalind Franklin, to Marie Curie and Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox, get the low down on the people whose thirst for knowledge has shaped the way we live today.

With beautiful photography and illustrations, 100 Scientists Who Made History is a fascinating look at the most important scientists and their discoveries. It´s the perfect way for kids to meet science´s most important people.

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1: Perceptive pioneers 1: Aristotle
2: Greek greats
1: Pythagoras
2: Empedocles
3: Democritus
4: Euclid
5: Hypatia
4: Archimedes
5: Hippocrates
6: Zhang Heng
7: Claudius Galen
8: Al-Khwarizmi
9: Avicenna
10: Averroes
11: Fibonacci
12: Francis Bacon

2: Brilliant biologists 1: Hildegard of Bingen
2: Mary Anning
3: Seeing things
1: Alhazen
2: Roger Bacon
3: Willebrord Snell
4: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
5: Patricia Bath
4: Robert Hooke
5: Carl Linnaeus
6: Charles Darwin
7: Gregor Mendel
8: Nettie Stevens
9: Thomas Hunt Morgan
10: Alexander Fleming
11: Franklin, Crick, and Watson
12: Inge Lehmann
13: Live James Lovelock
14: Charles David Keeling
15: Medical masterminds
1: Edward Jenner
2: Jonas Salk3: Paul Ehrlich
4: Fran‡oise Barré-Sinoussi
5: Joshua Lederberg

3: Clever chemists 1: Robert Boyle
2: Joseph Black
3: Joseph Priestly
4: Alessandro Volta
6: Michael Faraday
7: Louis Pasteur
8: Dmitri Mendeleev
9: Inventive chemists
1: Charles Goodyear
2: Leo Baekeland
3: Percy Julian
4: Stephanie Kwolek
5: George William Gray
10: The Curies
11: Alice Ball
12: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
13: Barbara McClintock

4: Phenomenal physicists 1: Leonardo da Vinci
2: Nicolaus Copernicus
3: Galileo Galilei
4: Johannes Kepler
5: Christiaan Huygens
6: Edmond Halley
7: Henriette Swan Leavitt
8: Isaac Newton
9: James Clerk Maxwell
10: Ernest Rutherford
11: Albert Einstein
12: J Robert Oppenheimer
13: Penzias and Wilson
14: Quantum physicists
1: James Chadwick
2: Werner Heisenberg
3: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
4: Richard Feynman
5: Peter Higgs
15: Edwin Hubble
16: Vera Rubin
17: Stephen Hawking

5: Incredible inventors 1: James Watt
2: Rudolf Diesel
3: Computing creatives
1: Ada Lovelace
2: Grace Murray Hopper
3: John von Neumann
4: Anne Easley
5: Tim Berners-Lee
4: Wilhelm Rontgen
5: C V Raman
6: Nikola Tesla
7: Joseph Lister
8: Alan Turing
9: Alfred Nobel
10: Ali Javan
11: Rachel Carson
12: Communicators
1: David Attenborough
2: Carl Sagan
3: Dava Sobel
3: Bill Nye
4: Neil DeGrasse Tyson

6: Let´s applaud...
7: Glossary
8: Index
9: Acknowledgments

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