Biography: science, technology and medicine

Written in simple and lucid language, these biographical sketches of great scientists have been put together for ready reference.

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

A mixture of memoir and biography, Chasing the Ghost: Nobelist Fred Reines and the Neutrino tells a deeply human story that appeals both to scientists and non-scientists.

Writing a memoir was not only an interesting experience for this Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University, but it also provided him an opportunity to revisit his past with his sons.

Never Lose Your Nerve!

Nobel laureate Tu Youyou won the 2015 prize for Medicine/Physiology for the discovery of artemisinin, a drug therapy for malaria that has saved millions across the globe.

This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi.

In this collection of essays, biographies and Nobel lectures, ten Nobel Laureates from five continents give various and startling perspectives on current questions about modernity and tradition, unity and diversity, integration, identity, integrity, gender and sexual roles in a multicultural world of change.

Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life.

A book that enlightens the life of Ahmed H Zewail from his early childhood to his days at CalTech.

'Michael Days insightful aphilosophical biography of J Robert Oppenheimer stands out from other works on the so-called afather of the atomic bomb by its focus on the post-war period and by the depth of its philosophical engagement with his humanistic thought on science and culture.

This is a collection of articles, many written by people who worked with Mandelbrot, memorializing the remarkable breadth and depth of his work in science and the arts.

2004 marked the centennial of the birth of J Robert Oppenheimer, and brought historians and scholars, former students, nuclear physicists, and politicians together to celebrate this event.

Robert F Christy was a legendary physicist, one of the key players in some of the most dramatic events of the 20th century.

On July 17, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincare's death was commemorated; his name being associated with so many fields of knowledge that he was considered as the Last Universalist.

Why are some nations rich and others poor?

This unique volume is not just an in-depth analysis of Professor Swaminathan's brilliant contributions to basic cytogenetics, radiation biology, mutagenesis and genomic affinities of cultivated potato and its wild derivatives, but also the application of the new knowledge gained to improve the productivity of agricultural crops, as also to enhance their resistance to a variety of biotic and abiotic stresses.

'Freeman Dyson has had an extraordinary range of interests, serious activity and influence.

'Professor Hao Bailin is one of China's most talented and most versatile theoretical physicists.

This is the story of a boy raised up in a village in Poland during World War II, with his father deported to concentration camps throughout the war.

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

**A Financial Times Best Summer Book 2023**Out now: a gripping look at the rise of the microchip and the British tech company behind the blueprint to it all.

Infectious Diseases: Smart Study Guide for Medical Students, Residents, Physicians and Clinical Pharmacists attempts to consolidate knowledge and information into a step-by-step process that would be easy to understand, remember, and apply in a clinical setting.

Muy temprano, Jacques Lacan, este hijo de familia católica y apegada a su tierra, impregnado de los ideales de la Francia burguesa, estuvo animado por un gran deseo de ascenso social e intelectual.

More and more people, particularly the very elderly, are becoming interested in what is known as fasting to death - a method of ending their own lives in a self-determined way.

Infectious Diseases: Smart Study Guide for Medical Students, Residents, Physicians and Clinical Pharmacists attempts to consolidate knowledge and information into a step-by-step process that would be easy to understand, remember, and apply in a clinical setting.

"e;Dr John Cotterill inspired a generation of doctors with his wit and erudition.

Del otro lado del escritorio: Yo, médico/Yo, paciente es un libro que nos invita a reflexionar sobre la práctica médica desde ambas perspectivas.

I Am the Woman at the Well was inspired by the story from the Holy Bible in John 4:1-25.

"El psicoanálisis es un desprendimiento del discurso médico.

Child sexual abuse (CSA) is believed to affect one in eight children worldwide (UNICEF, 2020).

Child labor is work that harms children or keeps them from attending school.

Dieses Buch lädt Sie ein, die Summe der Erfahrungen, Gefühle und Geschichten eines besonderen Lebens zu erkunden, das 1943 beginnt und nach 80 Jahren autobiographisches Erinnern mit tiefgreifendem Assoziieren verwebt.

Das Buch zum Kino-Highlight im Sommer 2023Oppenheimer wird eines der großen Kino-Highlights im Sommer 2023 sein.

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Die Autor_innen des Praxishandbuchs zur Beratung der Angehörigen von Menschen mit Demenz beziffern, wie viele Menschen direkt oder als Angehörige von Demenz betroffen sind.

As a child, Aomawa Shields was always bumping into things, her neck craned up at the sky, dreaming of becoming an astronaut.

Die Autor_innen des Praxishandbuchs zur Beratung der Angehörigen von Menschen mit Demenz beziffern, wie viele Menschen direkt oder als Angehörige von Demenz betroffen sind.

Sauls Damascus Road event is one of the most dramatic events in the Bible, and for so many different reasons that can and has directly impacted the lives of so many Christians.

Hope has long been a topic of interest for psychologists, philosophers, educators, and physicians.

The international bestselling author of Fermat’s Last Theorem explores the eccentric lives of history’s foremost mathematicians.

Mileva Maric was more than Albert Einstein's first wife-she was a brilliant physicist whose intellectual contributions have long been overlooked.

La Academia Colombiana de Historia, presenta la edición de la libreta de Lázaro María Girón como miembro de la Comisión Científica Permanente y reproduce así, por primera vez un testimonio documental hasta ahora inédito, donde convergen los discursos e imaginarios científicos y artísticos de finales del siglo XIX.

This book tells a heartwarming and compelling story of Bob and Jeanette Crick's relationship and their journey together through Jeanette's battle with Alzheimer's.

For the last four hundred years, women have played a part far in excess of their numerical representation in the history of astronomical research and discovery.

This book is about the author's life motivated by two pursuits: medicine, his profession and flyfishing, his favourite recreation.

This book describes the life and times of fifty-three great British scientists and engineers - male and female inventive geniuses who changed the world, improving the lives of mankind, and propelling humanity forward.

During his lifetime, Kurt Godel was not well known outside the professional world of mathematicians, philosophers and theoretical physicists.

Demenz ist mehr als eine Krankheit, aber es gibt Hoffnung …Alle 100 Sekunden erkrankt in Deutschland ein Mensch an Demenz.

An artist's uniquely personal journey across AmericaIn the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the cliffs of the Yellowstone River.