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Lives of the scientists : experiments, explosions (and what the neighbors thought)
Item details
- ISBN: 9780152059095 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0152059091 (hardback)
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96 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm - Publisher: Boston : Harcourt Children's Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013.
Contents / Notes
| General Note: | "The illustrations in this book were done in oil paint on Arches paper."--Title page verso. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical referenceS (page 96). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Dragons and frogs : Zhang Heng -- Writing on horseback : Ibn Sīnā -- Full of stars--and himself : Galileo -- The importance of an apple : Isaac Newton -- "Promise not to call me a lunatic" : William and Caroline Herschel -- Throwing up at the sight of blood : Charles Darwin -- Caterpillars in the lab : Louis Pasteur -- Very famous dogs : Ivan Pavlov -- Science can be delicious : George Washington Carver -- A blue-green glow : Marie Curie -- Fooling around for eight hours a day : Albert Einstein -- Cowboy songs in the dark : Edwin Hubble -- Watering corn with her tears : Barbara McClintock -- "Computers were more fun" : Grace Murray Hopper -- Imagining surf : Rachel Carson -- "A dear old friend" : Chien-Shiung Wu -- "Two people are better than one" : James D. Watson and Francis Crick -- From waitress to world expert : Jane Goodall. |
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| Subject: | Scientists Biography Juvenile literature Science History Juvenile literature Science Scientists |
| Genre: | Biography. History. Juvenile works. |
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