From brainy biologists and clever chemists to magnificent mathematicians and pioneering physicists, discover 100 remarkable scientists who shaped our world.

Containing a universe of knowledge, 100 Scientists Who Made History tells the story of the people who increased our grasp of almost everything around us. From Aristotle and Rosalind Franklin, to Marie Curie and Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox, get the low down on the people whose thirst for knowledge has shaped the way we live today.

With beautiful photography and illustrations, 100 Scientists Who Made History is a fascinating look at the most important scientists and their discoveries. It's the perfect way for kids to meet science's most important people.

This book is part of a book series called Scientists Who Made History .

This book has been graded for interest at 9-12 years.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Dorling Kindersley Ltd .

Andrea Mills has written a variety of children's books for DK, from readers to books in the DK Findout! series. Some of her books include Mythical Beasts, Findout! Bugs, and The Everything Book of Cats and Kittens.

This book has the following chapters:

• 1: Perceptive pioneers
• • 1: Aristotle
  • 2: Greek greats
  • 1: Pythagoras
  • 2: Empedocles
  • 3: Democritus
  • 4: Euclid
  • 5: Hypatia
  • 4: Archimedes
  • 5: Hippocrates
  • 6: Zhang Heng
  • 7: Claudius Galen
  • 8: Al-Khwarizmi
  • 9: Avicenna
  • 10: Averroes
  • 11: Fibonacci
  • 12: Francis Bacon
• 2: Brilliant biologists
• • 1: Hildegard of Bingen
  • 2: Mary Anning
  • 3: Seeing things
  • 1: Alhazen
  • 2: Roger Bacon
  • 3: Willebrord Snell
  • 4: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
  • 5: Patricia Bath
  • 4: Robert Hooke
  • 5: Carl Linnaeus
  • 6: Charles Darwin
  • 7: Gregor Mendel
  • 8: Nettie Stevens
  • 9: Thomas Hunt Morgan
  • 10: Alexander Fleming
  • 11: Franklin, Crick, and Watson
  • 12: Inge Lehmann
  • 13: Live James Lovelock
  • 14: Charles David Keeling
  • 15: Medical masterminds
  • 1: Edward Jenner
  • 2: Jonas Salk
  • 3: Paul Ehrlich
  • 4: Francoise Barre-Sinoussi
  • 5: Joshua Lederberg
• 3: Clever chemists
• • 1: Robert Boyle
  • 2: Joseph Black
  • 3: Joseph Priestly
  • 4: Alessandro Volta
  • 6: Michael Faraday
  • 7: Louis Pasteur
  • 8: Dmitri Mendeleev
  • 9: Inventive chemists
  • 1: Charles Goodyear
  • 2: Leo Baekeland
  • 3: Percy Julian
  • 4: Stephanie Kwolek
  • 5: George William Gray
  • 10: The Curies
  • 11: Alice Ball
  • 12: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
  • 13: Barbara McClintock
• 4: Phenomenal physicists
• • 1: Leonardo da Vinci
  • 2: Nicolaus Copernicus
  • 3: Galileo Galilei
  • 4: Johannes Kepler
  • 5: Christiaan Huygens
  • 6: Edmond Halley
  • 7: Henriette Swan Leavitt
  • 8: Isaac Newton
  • 9: James Clerk Maxwell
  • 10: Ernest Rutherford
  • 11: Albert Einstein
  • 12: J Robert Oppenheimer
  • 13: Penzias and Wilson
  • 14: Quantum physicists
  • 1: James Chadwick
  • 2: Werner Heisenberg
  • 3: Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar
  • 4: Richard Feynman
  • 5: Peter Higgs
  • 15: Edwin Hubble
  • 16: Vera Rubin
  • 17: Stephen Hawking
• 5: Incredible inventors
• • 1: James Watt
  • 2: Rudolf Diesel
  • 3: Computing creatives
  • 1: Ada Lovelace
  • 2: Grace Murray Hopper
  • 3: John von Neumann
  • 4: Anne Easley
  • 5: Tim Berners-Lee
  • 4: Wilhelm Rontgen
  • 5: C V Raman
  • 6: Nikola Tesla
  • 7: Joseph Lister
  • 8: Alan Turing
  • 9: Alfred Nobel
  • 10: Ali Javan
  • 11: Rachel Carson
  • 12: Communicators
  • 1: David Attenborough
  • 2: Carl Sagan
  • 3: Dava Sobel
  • 3: Bill Nye
  • 4: Neil DeGrasse Tyson
• 6: Let's applaud.
• 7: Glossary
• 8: Index
• 9: Acknowledgments