That great scientist was giving finishing touches to a lecture to be delivered in the Royal Society. An unusual glow was radiating from his face, as if he is an Indian sage reborn. A call disturbed his deep concentration and it was a ...
From skyscrapers to jet aircraft, from mobile phones to computers, the products of modern science surround us on all sides.
Short biographies, with descriptions of the scientific achievements of 21 notable scientists and inventors, including accounts of their Christian faith and how their work related to creationist belief.
Learn about the accomplishments of great scientists, how an event in childhood often awakened a curiosity and interest that developed into a lifetime study.
The main aim of this series is to expand the mental horizons of our readers and motivate them to achieve great heights in life. It is certainly a very valuable addition to the literature of popular science.
She was a distinguished government scientist and had completed her PhD in zoology at George Washington University in 1933. Skinker encouraged Rachel to take the civil service examinations in several zoological areas.
In Mind, Life and Universe they describe in their own words the most important and fascinating aspects of their research. Frank and often irreverent, these interviews will keep even the most casual reader of science books rapt for hours.
This book teaches the basic modes of scientific thought, not by philosophical generalizations, but by illustrating in detail how great scientists from across the sciences solved problems using scientific reason.
Copernicus, Crick, Watson, Galileo, Marie Curie: these are some of the forty pioneers behind modern science whose stories are explored here.
Unfortunately, some of that literature is decidedly inaccessible. To meet the difficulty this book has been written in the hope of bringing some of the most important passages of the literature of science within the reach of everyone.
He also formulates his famous equation E:mc2 (that the energy of an object is equal to its mass times the speed of light ... 1935 US scientists Charles Richter and Beno Gutenberg produce the scale of earthquake severity now known as the ...