On giants' shoulders : great scientists and their discoveries : from Archimedes to DNA / Melvyn Bragg, with Ruth Gardiner.

Author: Bragg, Melvyn, 1939-

Imprint:New York : Wiley, 1998.

Descriptionxiii, 365 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

Note:Archimedes (c. 287 BC-212 BC), with Lisa Jardine, Geoffrey Lloyd, Simon Schaffer, Lewis Wolpert -- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), with Mario Biagioli, Paul Davies, Michael Sharratt, Margaret Wertheim -- Sir Isaac Newton (1642--1727), with John Gribbin, Robert Iliffe, John Mullan, Martin Rees -- Antoine Lavoisier (17434-1794), with Peter Atkins, Jean-Pierre Poirier, Simon Schaffer, Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent -- Michael Faraday (1791-1867), with Geoffrey Canto, Ravi Mirchandani, iwan Morus, John Meurig Thomas -- Charles Darwin (1809-1882), with Janet Browne, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Stephen Jay Gould, Richard Darwin Keynes, John Maynard Smith -- Jules Henri Poincaré (1854-1912), with June Barrow Green, Robert May, Michel Paty, Ian Stewart -- Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), with Susan Greenfield, Adam Phillips, Oliver Sacks -- Marie Curie (1867-1955), with Françoise Balibar, John Gribbin, Dominique Pestre, Susan Quinn -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955), with Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Paul Davies, John Gribbin, Roger Penrose, Robert Schulmann -- Francis Crick (1916-2004) and James Watson (1928-), with James Watson, Richard Dawkins, Evelyn Fox Keller, John Maynard Smith -- Where are we now?, with Igor Aleksander, Jocelyn Bell Burnell, Paul Davies, Richard Dawkins, John Horgan, John Maddox, John Maynard Smith, Roger Penrose.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"On Giants' Shoulders focuses on twelve scientists who, in the last two thousand five hundred years, changed the world both as we perceive it and as we live in it. From Archimedes in Ancient Greece to Francis Crick and James Watson in mid-20th-century England, these landmark minds, their lives, their struggles, their colleagues and rivals are explored and unravelled by some of today's leading scientists. In combination, their stories and discoveries constitute a guide to the history of science." - Introd.

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