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Books in GREAT IDEAS OF SCIENCE series

  • Antoni van Leeuwenhoek: First to See Microscopic Life

    Lisa Yount

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, June 1, 2008)
    Provides a biography of the cloth merchant-turned-scientist who made many discoveries examining microscopic life through microscopes he made himself.
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  • Antoine Lavoisier: Founder of Modern Chemistry

    Lisa Yount

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, June 1, 2008)
    Profiles the life of the Frenchman who is considered the founder of modern chemistry and biochemistry because of his discovery of oxygen and his work on combustion and respiration.
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  • Carl Linnaeus: Father of Classification

    Margaret J. Anderson

    Library Binding (Enslow Publishers, Inc., May 1, 2009)
    Profiles the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist whose scientific naming of plants and animals provided an international language of nature.
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  • Marie Curie: Physics and Chemistry Pioneer

    Katherine Krieg

    Library Binding (Core Library, Sept. 1, 2014)
    Chronicles the life and career of the famous chemist, from her work with radioactivity to her two Nobel Prize wins.
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  • Albert Einstein: Physicist and Genius

    Joyce Goldenstern

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 1995)
    Traces the life and career of the famous physicist, discusses the theory of relativity, and assesses his impact on modern science
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  • Ivan Pavlov: Exploring the Mysteries of Behavior

    Barbara R. Saunders

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Dec. 1, 2006)
    Examines the Russian scientist's enormous contributions to our modern understanding of the relationship between the mind and body, looking at not only his behavioral experiments with dogs, but also his research on digestion which won him the 1904 Nobel Prize.
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  • Copernicus: Founder of Modern Astronomy

    Catherine M Andronik

    Library Binding (Enslow Elementary, Feb. 1, 2009)
    A biography of fifteenth-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who theorized that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe and that all the planets, including the earth, revolved around the sun.
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  • Edwin Hubble: Discoverer of Galaxies

    Claire L Datnow

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, March 1, 2007)
    Traces the life and work of Edwin Hubble, who discovered that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies and that the universe is expanding.
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  • Johannes Kepler: Discovering the Laws of Planetary Motion

    Mary Gow

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, June 1, 2003)
    Presents a biography of Johannes Kepler, the renaissance astronomer and mathematician who formulated the three laws of planetary motion.
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  • Edward Jenner: Conqueror of Smallpox

    Ana Maria Rodriguez

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Feb. 1, 2006)
    Describes the history of smallpox and how the research of a scientist not only led to a vaccination against the disease, but opened up a new era in medicine that has saved countless lives.
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  • The Leakeys: Uncovering the Origins of Humankind

    Margaret Poynter

    Library Binding (Enslow Pub Inc, Aug. 1, 1997)
    Profiles the lives of Louis and Mary Leakey and their dedication to the study of human evolution.
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  • Charles Drew: Distinguished Surgeon and Blood Researcher

    Julia Garstecki

    Library Binding (Core Library, Sept. 1, 2015)
    This title is a brief, yet informative, biography on Charles Drew. Readers will learn about Drews early life, personal life, and all about his contributions to science, blood banking, and blood transfusions. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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