by John Gribbin · Random House Trade Paperbacks · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780812967883
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«The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors» is an essay on the history of science by John Gribbin, in paperback.
John Gribbin covers five hundred years of Western science through the lives of its protagonists, from Copernicus to the twentieth century. The book traces a genealogy that links amateurs and geniuses, accidental discoveries and brilliant deductions, with anecdotes about figures such as Galileo, Newton, Einstein and Linus Pauling.
English edition, published by Random House Trade Paperbacks in 2004.
For readers interested in the history of science and in the biographies of its great figures.
John R. Gribbin is a British science writer and astrophysicist. His subjects include quantum physics, human evolution, climate change and cosmology. He is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex. Best known for In Search of Schrödinger's Cat, he has also written biographies of Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein and Buddy Holly. Robert Macfarlane calls him "one of the finest and most prolific writers of popular science around."
