Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians,
Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100
Science Discoveries That Changed the World charts the great
breakthroughs in scientific understanding.
Each entry describes the story of the research, the significance of the
science and its impact on the scientific world. There is also a resume
of each scientist's career along with their other achievements,
sometimes - in the case of Isaac Newton - in a completely unrelated
field (laws of motion and the component parts of light).
The book covers all branches of science: geometry, number theory,
cosmology, the laws of motion, particle physics, electricity, magnetism,
the laws of gasses, optical theory, cell biology, conservation of
energy, natural selection, radiation, quantum theory, special
relativity, superconductivity, thermodynamics, genomes, plate tectonics,
and the uncertainty principal.
Scientists include: Albert Einstein, Alessandro Volta, Alexander
Fleming, Amedeo Avogrado, Andre Geim, Antoine Lavoisier, Antony van
Leeuwenhoek, Archimedes, Benoit Mandelbrot, Carl Friedrich Gauss,
Charles Darwin, Christian Doppler, Copernicus, Crick and Watson, Dmitri
Mendeleev, Edwin Hubble, Enrico Fermi, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin
Schrodinger, Euclid, Fermat, Frederick Sanger, Galileo Galilei, Georg
Ohm, Georges Lemaitre, Heike Kamerlingh, Isaac Newton, Jacques Charles,
James Clerk Maxwell, James Prescott Joule, Jean Buridan, Johanes Kepler,
John Ambrose Fleming, John Dalton, John O'Keefe, Joseph Black, Josiah
Gibbs, Lord Kelvin, Lord Rayleigh, Louis Pasteur, Marie Curie, Martinus
Beijerinck, Michael Faraday, Murray Gell-Mann & George Zweig, Neils
Bohr, Nicholas Steno, Peter Higgs, Pierre Curie, Ptolemy, Robert Boyle,
Robert Brown, Robert Hooke, Roger Bacon, Rudolf Clausius, Seleucus, Shen
Kuo, Stanley Miller, Tyco Brahe, Werner Heisenberg, William Gilbert,
William Harvey, William Herschel, William Rontgen, Wolfgang Pauli.
