Books in Great Ideas of Science series

Provides a biography of the cloth merchant-turned-scientist who made many discoveries examining microscopic life through microscopes he made himself.

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.

Profiles the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist whose scientific naming of plants and animals provided an international language of nature.

Chronicles the life and career of the famous chemist, from her work with radioactivity to her two Nobel Prize wins.

Traces the life and career of the famous physicist, discusses the theory of relativity, and assesses his impact on modern science

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.

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.

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.

Presents a biography of Johannes Kepler, the renaissance astronomer and mathematician who formulated the three laws of planetary motion.

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.

Profiles the lives of Louis and Mary Leakey and their dedication to the study of human evolution.

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.