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Publication
Clarion Books (2016), Edition: Reprint, 96 pages
Description
Profiles many of history's most noteworthy scientists, from Zhang Heng and Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein and Barbara McClintock, sharing lesser-known facts about their favorite activities, relationships, and eccentricities.
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2013
Physical description
96 p.; 10 inches
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LibraryThing member themulhern
Fun book, passing on some facts and some fables about famous scientists. Lively and entertaining. The illustrations are clever and accomplished. The heads of the scientists are much enlarged, while their diminutive bodies are surrounded by the symbology of their scientific accomplishments and other
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LibraryThing member SuPendleton
This is a fun book of biographies to read - I read 7 biographies and plan to finish the book this summer. I am not usually drawn to biographies, but the author's sense of humor made me want to keep reading. I can easily see students picking this book up and reading about the lives of these
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scientists. I like the addition of the "Extra Credit" at the end of each biography which gives interesting and sometimes strange facts. The book reminded me of How They Croaked but this book seemed written for younger students and had fewer illustrations. Show Less
LibraryThing member HadleyAdkins
"Lives of Scientists" explores the personal lives of some of the world's greatest scientists. This book not only explains these individuals' contribution to the scientific community, but discusses who they were as people, how they worked (or didn't) with others, their hobbies, and their families.
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This book gives valuable insight into who these scientists were and shows that all types of people can be scientists. "Lives of Scientists" illustrates the diversity of the scientific community and the sometimes difficult path these people had to travel in order to be taken seriously. This book was entertaining and informative and would be a fun book to have in the classroom. Show Less
LibraryThing member kvelin
This book has short biographies and interesting tid-bits on the lives of influential scientists. This book would be a great way to introduce a topic and get gets thinking. It could also help build background knowledge before diving deeper into a specific subject.
LibraryThing member vivirielle
Scientists have made discoveries that change our world, but they were also real people who irritated their neighbors and had favorite foods. The book details lives of scientists Zhang Heng, Ibn Sina, Galileo, Isaac Netwon, William and Caroline Herschel, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Ivan Pavlov,
This is an excellent resource to introduce children to the accomplishments of several scientists while also showing how human they were. It talks about amusing thing like how Galileo was lectured by the Roman Inquisition for disrespecting his mother and how Albert Einstein collected joke books. It includes several minorities, with 7 biographies being about women and 5 of the scientists were not Caucasian. Some of the scientists are well-known, but Krull also includes ancient scientists that aren’t as famous. The details about their accomplishments and the emphasis on what these men and women were like as people will help children be interested in scientists in ways they might not have been before.
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George Washington Carver, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Edwin Hubble, Barbara McClintock, Grace Murray Hopper, Rachel Carson, Chien-Shiung Wu, James D. Watson and Francis Crick, and Jane Goodall. In each short biography, it shows an illustration of the scientist, details what contributions that scientist made to the world, and interesting things about them that will interest readers and remind them that scientists are real people too.This is an excellent resource to introduce children to the accomplishments of several scientists while also showing how human they were. It talks about amusing thing like how Galileo was lectured by the Roman Inquisition for disrespecting his mother and how Albert Einstein collected joke books. It includes several minorities, with 7 biographies being about women and 5 of the scientists were not Caucasian. Some of the scientists are well-known, but Krull also includes ancient scientists that aren’t as famous. The details about their accomplishments and the emphasis on what these men and women were like as people will help children be interested in scientists in ways they might not have been before.
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Pages
96