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Darwin - Natural History Museum by John Van Wyhe
Category: Biography | Series: Amazing Minds Ser.
Charles Darwin revolutionized our understanding of life on earth and our place within it. His theory of evolution by natural selection, though shocking and controversial at the time, has remained the bedrock of the life sciences for almost 160 years. In Darwin John van Wyhe draws on 25 years of research ...Show more
Hawking by Joel Levy
Category: Biography | Series: Amazing Minds Ser.
Hawking explores the life and work, explaining the breakthroughs at the cutting edge of cosmology, from the Big Bang to black holes, and the ups and downs of Stephen Hawking's extraordinary and often turbulent life. The death of Stephen Hawking in March 2018 brought to a close one of the most remarkabl ...Show more
Marie Curie - The Pioneer, the Nobel Laureate by Richard Gunderman
Category: Biography | Series: Amazing Minds Ser.
When Marie Curie and her husband, Pierre, discovered the atomic nature of radioactivity, and isolated polonium and radium, they revolutionized modern science. Her work not only contributed to our understanding of the structure of the atom, but also laid the foundation for modern medical innovations such ...Show more
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