The Scientists (book)
The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery, edited by Andrew Robinson, is a collection of 43 biographies of a selection of the greatest scientists of all time. An updated paperback edition of the book entitled The Scientists: Pioneers of Discovery appeared in 2023.
Overview
The book's chapters are contributed by various authors and cover the following scientists in a number of parts:;Universe
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Johannes Kepler
- Galileo Galilei
- Isaac Newton
- Michael Faraday
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Albert Einstein
- Edwin Powell Hubble
;Molecules and matter
- Robert Boyle
- Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
- John Dalton
- Dmitri Mendeleev
- August Kekulé
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
;Inside the atom
- Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
- Ernest Rutherford
- Niels Bohr
- Linus Carl Pauling
- Enrico Fermi
- Hideki Yukawa
- Carl Linnaeus
- Jan IngenHousz
- Charles Darwin
- Gregor Mendel
- Jan Purkinje
- Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Francis Crick and James Watson
- Andreas Vesalius
- William Harvey
- Louis Pasteur
- Francis Galton
- Sigmund Freud
- Alan Turing
- John von Neumann
- Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey
Translations
The book has been translated into a number of languages other than English:- Czech: Vědci, Slovart, 2013.
- Dutch: De Grote Wetenschappers, Fontaine Uitgevers, 2013.
- German: Faszination Forschung, Parthas Verlag, 2013.
- Japanese: 世界の科学者図鑑, Hara Shobo, 2013.
- Korean: The Great Scientists / 위대한 과학자들, Knowledge Gallery, 2012.
- Spanish: Los Grandes Científicos, Lunwerg Editores, 2012.
- Turkish: Bilim Insanlari, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2013.
- Vietnamese: Những Nhà Khoa Học, Kim Đồng Publishing House, 2017.
Reviews
The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including:AmazonThe Bulletin of The Royal College of PathologistsChoiceThe Irish TimesThe LancetNatureSan Francisco Book ReviewScience News- ''The Scotsman''