Biography: science, technology and medicine

Physics is the important branch of science mainly concerned with the properties of matter and energy and the relationship between them.

"e;An eye-opening and enchanting book by one of our major scientist-explorers.

For anyone interested in wildlife, birds, wilderness areas, parks, ecology, conservation, environmental literature, and ethics, the name Aldo Leopold is sure to pop up.

My autobiography is a record of my life and interactions with many interesting people over the course of my work.

This is a series of personal recollections concerning the life and work of a leading American-Israeli environmental and agricultural scientist, whose wide-ranging personal and professional experiences span eight decades and some 40 countries around the world.

This series presents biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Engineering.

George Gabriel Stokes was one of the most important mathematical physicists of the 19th century.

David Suzukis autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place.

Depuis 2010, Albert Benhaim, médecin, subit les assauts répétés de la Régie de l'assurance maladie du Québec ainsi que ceux du Collège des médecins du Québec, qui l'a radié à vie de ses rangs en 2017.

The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful opportunism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.

As one of the foremost scientists of the time, the Zurich-born botanist Hans Schinz travelled throughout the colony of German South-West Africa, now known as Namibia, from 1884 to 1886.

***'Just brilliant.

How forty years of research on thirty neurons in the stomach of a lobster has yielded valuable insights for the study of the human brain.

The differences between running an Indy car on a road circuit and an oval are described, as is the struggle to get the best from a car for the Indy 500 - a task which is described with unusual clarity.

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 51 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.

Repackaged with a new afterword, this "e;valuable and entertaining"e; (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature's best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems.

The beloved New York Times bestsellers that inspired the classic BBC and PBS Masterpiece series-from a Yorkshire veterinarian and a "e;wise and wonderful writer"e; (The Boston Globe).

La haine a séparé pendant des siècles l’Allemagne et la France.

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection.

This is the 17th Volume in the series Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

Wisdom of the Martians of Science refers to five scientists whose brilliance contributed to shaping the modern world.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE'A masterpiece of biography .

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Rudolf Schick in memoriam" verfügbar.

A history of the most successful, significant and long-running natural history series in the world.

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Ulrich Oevermann und Fritz Schütze erzählen davon, wie sich ihre Abeit als Soziologen – auch vor dem Hintergrund ihrer Lebensgeschichte – entfaltet hat und dabei spezifische Fragestellungen, Arbeitsweisen, thematische Linien und Forschungsmilieus entstanden sind.

The #1 New York Times and global bestseller from Walter Isaacsonthe acclaimed author of Steve Jobs, Einstein: His Life and World, Benjamin Franklin, and Leonardo da Vinciis the astonishingly intimate story of the most fascinating, controversial innovator of modern times.

In 1959, Harold M.

Imagining the Elephant is a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack, a physicist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for his pioneering contributions to the development of the computer-assisted tomography (CAT) scanner, an honor he shared with Godfrey Hounsfield.

In Bootstrap Geologist Shinn enthusiastically shares the highs and lows of his remarkable life.

The complete guide to everything you ever wanted to know about EinsteinThis is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike.

This is a series of personal recollections concerning the life and work of a leading American-Israeli environmental and agricultural scientist, whose wide-ranging personal and professional experiences span eight decades and some 40 countries around the world.

A heartwarming memoir of a family that refused to give upWhen twenty-two-year-old Susan Stachler was diagnosed with cancer, her mother, Laura, was struck by deja vu: the same illness that took her sister's life was threatening to take her daughter's too.

ALS is not a curable disease, but it is a treatable one.

The emigration of mathematicians from Europe during the Nazi era signaled an irrevocable and important historical shift for the international mathematics world.

Born in Britain in 1960, James Orbinski's family moved to Canada when he was seven years old.

Selected for Reading Well for Dementia 2024: endorsed by health experts, charities and people affected by dementia.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERStrictly Come Dancing professional and breast cancer and Crohn's awareness advocate Amy Dowden shares her journey from growing up in the Welsh Valleys to dancing on the glittering stage of prime-time television.

This gripping memoir about what it means to face uncertainty details the plans Janine had for her family and her life that were gutted by her then 10-year-old son Mason's diagnosis of a cancerous brain tumor, only to be followed by her own cancer diagnosis.

A treasure trove of illuminating and entertaining quotations from the legendary naturalistHere is Charles Darwin in his own words-the naturalist, traveler, scientific thinker, and controversial author of On the Origin of Species, the book that shook the Victorian world.

How unassuming government researcher Marshall Nirenberg beat James Watson, Francis Crick, and other world-famous scientists in the race to discover the genetic code.

Die Mutter war Tänzerin bei Mary Wigman, sein Vater Kunsthistoriker.

Biographic Memoirs: Volume 47 contains the biographies of deceased members of the National Academy of Sciences and bibliographies of their published works.

An engaging account of a neurologist''s experience with an Alzheimer''s diagnosis, a disease he spent decades treating in others.

Emil von Behring: Wissenschaftler, Unternehmer, Nobelpreisträger - und eine widersprüchliche Persönlichkeit.

How to live a full and rewarding life after a dementia diagnosis.

Few American lives have been as celebrated--or as closely scrutinized--as that of Benjamin Franklin.

A “groundbreaking” memoir about raising a special-needs daughter in an era of misinformation and prejudice—a classic that helped transform our perceptions (Publishers Weekly).