World Famous Scientists
Scientists whose inventions famously made life easy for us
- English
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About this book
Written in simple and lucid language, these biographical sketches of great scientists have been put together for ready reference. History of the world is replete with such instances of such men and women who went against all the odds and achieved great heights and changed the shape of the world. In fact, reading about the life-sketch of a scientist and his achievements, has certainly great infotainment value. Besides, the lives of great men and women provide us inspiration to do things differently, and more confidently. For some people these inspirations have more importance than any other motivational factors. When we learn that Edison was a poor boy without any formal schooling or Faraday was an apprentice at a stationery shop we feel greatly motivated and think, 'if they could do it we can do it too!'. We find a new confidence in ourselves. In this respect the importance of these books, specially for children, can hardly be underestimated. Rather they could even be a part of the curriculum-- as at times they can prove so inspiring and motivate a person in such a way, that they could change the entire course of the life of a person. The main aim of this series is to expand the mental horizons of our readers and motivate them to achieve great heights in life. It is certainly a very valuable addition to the literature of popular science. The book can also prove to be an ideal companion during leisure time. #v&spublishers
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Publishersā Note
- Contents
- Michael Faraday: (The Inventor of Electromagnetic Induction)
- Galielei Galileo: (Who wonderstruck people from the Leaning Tower of Pisa)
- Evangelista Torricelli: (The Inventor of Barometer)
- Otto von Guericke: (Who performed a vacuum experiment with 16 horses)
- Enrico Fermi: (Inventor of Nuclear Reactor)
- Max Planck: (Scientist who developed Quantum Theory)
- Leonardo da Vinci: (Who was called ten men-in-one)
- Sir Humphry Davy: (Inventor of Safety Lamp for Miners)
- Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen: (Discoverer of X-rays)
- Sir Isaac Newton: (Who invented the Law of Gravitation seeing a falling apple)
- Edward Jenner: (Discoverer of smallpox vaccination)
- Satyendra Nath Bose: (Discoverer of Bose-Einstein Statistics)
- Sir Alexander Fleming: (Scientist who invented Penicillin)
- Archimedes
- J. Robert Oppenheimer: (The Father of Atom Bomb)
- Thomas Alva Edison: (Inventor who took more than 1000 patents)
- Benjamin Franklin: (The famous politician and scientist)
- Salim Ali: (Godfather of Birds)
- Sir Jagdish Chandra Bose: (Who established similarities between plants and animals)
- Charles Darwin: (Who laid the foundation of the modern theory of evolution)
- Madame Curie: (Lady Scientist who discovered Radium)
- Sir C.V. Raman: (Inventor of Raman Effect)
- Wilbur and Orville Wright: (Inventors of Aeroplane)
- Blaise Pascal: (Who gave Pascalās Law in Hydrostatics)
- Albert Einstein: (Father of Modern Physics)
- Kekule von Stradonitz Friedrich August: (Whose problem was solved in a dream)
- James Clerk Maxwell: (Scientist who gave electromagnetic theory of light)
- Guglielmo Marconi: (Inventor of Wireless Telegraphy and Radio)
- Sir James Chadwick: (Discoverer of Neutron)
- John Logie Baird: (Inventor of Television)
- Pythagoras: (A Mathematical Genius of ancient times)
- Alfred Bernhard Nobel: (Swedish Inventor of Dynamite and founder of the Nobel Prize)
- Hargobind Khorana: (Manufacturer of Artificial Genes in the Laboratory)
- Dr. Homi Jehangir Bhabha: (Initiator of Indiaās Atomic Energy Programme)
- Euclid: (Ancient mathematician of the world)
- Srinivasa Ramanujan: (World Famous Mathematician of India)
- Alexander Graham Bell: (The Father of Telephone)
- Lord Rutherford: (Man who gave internal structure of Atom)
- Gregor Johann Mendel: (Father of Genetics)
- John Napier: (Inventor of Logarithm)
- Prafulla Chandra Ray: (Inventor of medicinal compound from waste cattle bones)