Browsing Science Biography: 35 records found Click Here to choose another location to browse. Do you want to add this location to your Want List? Click here for more information... Sort By: Most Recently Added Author Title Price Printable Version   NEXT 10--> 1 2 $10.00 AGASSIZ, LOUIS; (Subject); Irmscher, Christoph Louis Agassiz: Creator Of American Science Houghton Mifflin Company 2013 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1142315. ISBN #0547577672 / 9780547577678. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $10.00 BELL, Graham; Waite, Helen E. Make a Joyful Sound Macrae Smith 1961 hard cover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or352690. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $7.50 EINSTEIN, ALBERT Einstein, a Portrait Pomegranate Artbooks 1984 soft cover. Book: Clean text. B&W photos. DJ: Stains.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or560975. ISBN #0917556976 / 9780917556975. (keywords: SCIENTIST PHILOSOPHY) (filed under: Science Biography ) * $5.50 EINSTEIN, ALBERT; (Subject); Einstein, Albert The World As I See It Philosophical Library 1949 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Some Chipping. Book #or1142316. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $12.00 FARADAY, MICHAEL; (Subject); Hamilton, James A Life Of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant Of The Scientific Revolution Random House 2004 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1142314. ISBN #1400060168 / 9781400060160. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $3.95 HAWKING(Subject); Boslough, John Stephen Hawking's Universe 1985 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055892. ISBN #0688062709 / 9780688062705. (filed under: Science Biography ) * HAWKING(Subject); Boslough, John Stephen Hawking's Universe 1985 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1055892. ISBN #0688062709 / 9780688062705. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary Since the publication of "A Brief History of Time" - an introduction to some of the most important theories on the cosmos - Stephen Hawking is known widely as a man who has changed the way we look at the universe. He became a member of the Royal Society at the unusually early age of 32 and became in 1980 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Written with Hawking's assistance, this is a readable account for the non-specialist of his contribution to theoretical physics. It encompasses his theories on the Big Bang and the nature of black holes, and contains the transcript of one of his most important essays. $3.50 HAWKING(Subject); Boslough, John Stephen Hawking's Universe William Morrow & Co 1985 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126754. ISBN #0688062709 / 9780688062705. (filed under: Science Biography ) * HAWKING(Subject); Boslough, John Stephen Hawking's Universe William Morrow & Co 1985 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1126754. ISBN #0688062709 / 9780688062705. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary Since the publication of "A Brief History of Time" - an introduction to some of the most important theories on the cosmos - Stephen Hawking is known widely as a man who has changed the way we look at the universe. He became a member of the Royal Society at the unusually early age of 32 and became in 1980 Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Written with Hawking's assistance, this is a readable account for the non-specialist of his contribution to theoretical physics. It encompasses his theories on the Big Bang and the nature of black holes, and contains the transcript of one of his most important essays. $5.99 HAWKING(Subject); Lee, Soojung Biography Comic: Who? Stephen Hawking paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1117234. ISBN #8963705188 / 9788963705187. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $6.50 HAWKING(Subject); White, Michael; Gribbin, John Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or998858. ISBN #0452269881 / 9780452269880. (filed under: Science Biography ) * HAWKING(Subject); White, Michael; Gribbin, John Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science 1993 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or998858. ISBN #0452269881 / 9780452269880. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary Weaves the life of the famed scientist and author of the phenomenal best-seller A Brief History of Time together with detailed explanations of some of his theories. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. $6.99 HAWKING; White, Michael; Gribbin, John Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science Plume 1993 Trade Paperback. light shelf wear; light yellowing. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or609113. ISBN #0452269881 / 9780452269880. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $15.00 HENRY(Subject); Coulson, Thomas Joseph Henry: His Life & Work 1950 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or960798. (filed under: Science Biography ) * HENRY(Subject); Coulson, Thomas Joseph Henry: His Life & Work 1950 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or960798. (filed under: Science Biography ) * From humble beginnings at a farm near Albany, New York, Joseph Henry rose to become a leading physicist of the nineteenth century, achieving fame in the field of electricity. He organized the Smithsonian Institution. more about this book $8.50 Johnson, George Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann And The Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1031302. ISBN #0679437649 / 9780679437642. (filed under: Science Biography ) * Johnson, George Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann And The Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics 1999 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1031302. ISBN #0679437649 / 9780679437642. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary No contemporary scientist has done more to shape our understanding of the universe than Murray Gell-Mann, the Nobel Prize-winner many consider the most brilliant physicist of his generation. His discoveries of the quark and the Eightfold Way were cornerstones for all that has followed in particle physics, the effort to explain the very stuff of creation. In this first biography of Gell-Mann, George Johnson tells the story of a remarkable life. Born on New York's Lower East Side, Gell-Mann was quickly recognized as a child prodigy. Propelled by an intense boyhood curiosity and a love for nature, he entered Yale at fifteen. By age twenty-three he had ignited a revolution, laying bare in his groundbreaking work the strange beauty of the minute particles that constitute the ultimate components of physical reality. Particle physics is the most competitive of sports, and Johnson shows us the precocious polymath holding his own with giants like Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Richard Feynman -- Gell-Mann's favorite intellectual sparring partner and sometimes antagonistic rival. We see Gell-Mann the self-taught linguist who couldn't resist correcting visitors on the pronunciation of their own names ; Gell-Mann the birdwatcher and amateur archaeologist; Gell-Mann the Aspen socialite, world traveler, and environmental crusader. We watch him making his scientific breakthroughs, his abrasive, competitive drive leaving behind a growing trail of enemies. The early death of his first wife and a family crisis sent him veering in new directions. Turning from the physics of simple particles, like quarks, he began exploring how complex phenomena like life can be understood scientifically. George Johnson's informed and insightful biography goes far in helping us understand the complexities of both the man and the science in which he has loomed so large. $15.00 KNOX; Rae, Isobel Knox: The Anatomist Oliver & Boyd 1964 Hard Cover. First Edition. moderate shelf wear; yellowing; light tearing at DJ edges; some spotting at edges. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or647351. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $35.00 KOPROWSKI; Vaughan, Roger Listen to the Music : The Life of Hilary Koprowski Springer 2000 hard cover. First Edition. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or432842. ISBN #0387988491 / 9780387988498. (keywords: MEDICINE HISTORY POLIOMYELITIS VACCINE VIROLOGY) (filed under: Science Biography ) * $5.50 LAWRENCE(Subject); Davis, Nuel Pharr Lawrence And Oppenheimer paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1112283. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $9.50 LINCOLN(Subject); Moley, Raymond The American Century of John C. Lincoln hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1008894. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $10.00 LUCK(Subject); Luck, James Murray Reminiscences 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or989410. ISBN #0824316037 / 9780824316037. (filed under: Science Biography ) * LUCK(Subject); Luck, James Murray Reminiscences 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or989410. ISBN #0824316037 / 9780824316037. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary $4.50 MARCONI(Subject); Macleod, Mary K. Marconi: The Canada Years 1902-1946 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030308. ISBN #1551093308 / 9781551093307. (filed under: Science Biography ) * MARCONI(Subject); Macleod, Mary K. Marconi: The Canada Years 1902-1946 2000 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1030308. ISBN #1551093308 / 9781551093307. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary The exciting story of Guglielmo Marconi the wireless. $9.99 MARCONI(Subject); Weightman, Gavin Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revolution Da Capo Press 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or892897. ISBN #0306812754 / 9780306812750. (filed under: Science Biography ) * MARCONI(Subject); Weightman, Gavin Signor Marconi's Magic Box: The Most Remarkable Invention Of The 19th Century & The Amateur Inventor Whose Genius Sparked A Revolution Da Capo Press 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or892897. ISBN #0306812754 / 9780306812750. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary The world at the turn of the twentieth century was in the throes of "Marconi-mania"-brought on by an incredible invention that no one could quite explain, and by a dapper and eccentric figure who would one day win the newly minted Nobel Prize at the center of it all. At a time when the telephone, telegraph, and electricity made the whole world wonder just what science would think of next, the startling answer had come in 1896 in the form of two mysterious wooden boxes containing a device one Guglielmo Marconi had rigged up to transmit messages "through the ether." It was the birth of the radio, and no scientist in Europe or America, not even Marconi himself, could at first explain how it worked it just did. And no one knew how far these radio waves could travel, until 1903, when a message from President Theodore Roosevelt to the king of England flashed from Cape Cod to Cornwall clear across the Atlantic.Here is a rich portrait of the man and his era-and a captivating tale of science and scientists, business and businessmen. There are stories of British blowhards, American con artists-and Marconi himself: a character par excellence, who eventually winds up a virtual prisoner of his worldwide fame and fortune. $5.50 Nasar, Sylvia A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Simon & Schuster 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1139120. ISBN #0684853701 / 9780684853703. (filed under: Science Biography ) * Nasar, Sylvia A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994 Simon & Schuster 1999 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1139120. ISBN #0684853701 / 9780684853703. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary Amazon.com Review: Stories of famously eccentric Princetonians abound--such as that of chemist Hubert Alyea, the model for The Absent-Minded Professor, or Ralph Nader, said to have had his own key to the library as an undergraduate. Or the "Phantom of Fine Hall," a figure many students had seen shuffling around the corridors of the math and physics building wearing purple sneakers and writing numerology treatises on the blackboards. The Phantom was John Nash, one of the most brilliant mathematicians of his generation, who had spiraled into schizophrenia in the 1950s. His most important work had been in game theory, which by the 1980s was underpinning a large part of economics. When the Nobel Prize committee began debating a prize for game theory, Nash's name inevitably came up--only to be dismissed, since the prize clearly could not go to a madman. But in 1994 Nash, in remission from schizophrenia, shared the Nobel Prize in economics for work done some 45 years previously. Economist and journalist Sylvia Nasar has written a biography of Nash that looks at all sides of his life. She gives an intelligent, understandable exposition of his mathematical ideas and a picture of schizophrenia that is evocative but decidedly unromantic. Her story of the machinations behind Nash's Nobel is fascinating and one of very few such accounts available in print the CIA could learn a thing or two from the Nobel committees . This highly recommended book is indeed "a story about the mystery of the human mind, in three acts: genius, madness, reawakening." --Mary Ellen Curtin $4.95 NEWTON(Subject); McPherson, Joyce Ocean Of Truth: The Story Of Sir Isaac Newton paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121761. ISBN #1882514173 / 9781882514175. (filed under: Science Biography ) * NEWTON(Subject); McPherson, Joyce Ocean Of Truth: The Story Of Sir Isaac Newton paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1121761. ISBN #1882514173 / 9781882514175. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary Sir Isaac Newton is one of history's most renowned scientists. He independently developed the mathematical technique known as Calculus, wrote a treatise on the properties of light and color that is still consulted by scientists, and worked out the mathematical details of the law of gravity. What is less well known is the depth of his Christian faith, and the amount of writing, speaking, and research he devoted to defenses of the tenets of Biblical belief. This book makes Newton come alive for readers. From the detailed account of the events that led to his conversion, his Christian faith plays a central role in this biography, as it did in his life. $7.50 OPPENHEIMER(Subject); Chevalier, Haakon Oppenheimer: The Story Of Friendship hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1075371. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $7.99 OPPENHEIMER(Subject); Oppenheimer, Robert; Smith, Alice Kimball; Weiner, Charles (editors) Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections Harvard University Press 1980 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Yellowing from age. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or704302. ISBN #0674776054 / 9780674776050. (filed under: Science Biography ) * OPPENHEIMER(Subject); Oppenheimer, Robert; Smith, Alice Kimball; Weiner, Charles (editors) Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections Harvard University Press 1980 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Wear from use. Yellowing from age. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Tears and damage to jacket. Book #or704302. ISBN #0674776054 / 9780674776050. (filed under: Science Biography ) * stock image, actual book may vary $8.95 OPPENHEIMER, ROBERT; (Subject); Monk, Ray Robert Oppenheimer: A Life Inside The Center Anchor Books 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1142722. ISBN #0385722044 / 9780385722049. (filed under: Science Biography ) * $10.00 PASTEUR (Subject); Dubos, Rene J. Louis Pasteur : Free Lance of Science Little, Brown and Company 1950 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Slight tears to jacket. Book #or705763. (filed under: Science Biography ) *   NEXT 10--> 1 2