Lives of the scientists : experiments, explosions (and what the neighbors thought)
Summary
Profiles many of history's most noteworthy scientists, from Zhang Heng and Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein and Barbara McClintock, sharing lesser-known facts about their favorite activities, relationships, and eccentricities. Full description
- Dragons and grogs / Zhang Heng
- Writing on horseback / Ibn Sina
- Full of stars
- and himself / Galileo
- The importance of an apple / Isaac Newton
- "Promise not to call me a lunatic" / William and Caroline Herschel
- Throwing up at the sight of blood / Charles Darwin
- Caterpillars in the lab / Louis Pasteur
- Very famous dogs / Ivan Pavlov
- Science can be delicious / George Washington Carver
- A blue-green glow / Marie Curie
- Fooling around for eight hours a day / Albert Einstein
- Cowboy songs in the dark / Edwin Hubble
- Watering corn with her tears / Barbara McClintock
- "Computers were more fun" / Grace Murray Hopper
- Imagining surf / Rachel Carson
- "A dear old friend" / Chien-Shiung Wu
- "Two people are better than one" / James D. Watson and Francis Crick
- From waitress to world expert / Jane Goodall.