Books on scientists biography

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    The Best Books About Scientists

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    Vintage Books American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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    With the summer of “Barbenheimer” upon us, now is the perfect time to read the definitive biography of one of the most complicated figures in the history of American science: J. Robert Oppenheimer. Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book follows the rise and fall of the ​​brilliant physicist behind the world’s first atomic bomb. The New York Times Bestseller uses Oppenheimer as a window into the making of the Cold War.

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    Dey Street Books Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

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    This National Book Award Finalist combines archival photos, images, and clippings with dazzling line drawings to tell the story of legendary scientist Marie Curie and her husband and collaborator Pierre Curie. Reviewers praise this “sumptuously illustrated”

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    • Famous Men of ScienceSarah Knowles Bolton
    • Biographies of distinguished scientific men. First seriesF. Arago
    • John James AudubonJohn Burroughs
    • Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 3 (of 3)Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and James Montgomery
    • The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and KeplerDavid Brewster
    • Louis Agassiz: His Life and CorrespondenceLouis Agassiz
    • Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 1 (of 3)Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and James Montgomery
    • De martelaars der wetenschap (Dutch)Gaston Tissandier
    • Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 12Elbert Hubbard
    • Eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Vol. 2 (of 3)Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and James Montgomery
    • Catholic Churchmen in Science [First Series]James J. Walsh

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    The best books on Scientists

    Scientists are the topic of the brilliant books you’ve selected. Although science has been afoot since ancient times, the word ‘scientist’ is a relatively recent invention. William Whewell coined it in 1833. What is a scientist and what made scientists?

    The etymological lineage of the word “scientist” makes it seem as if that role was a modern British invention—which is not true.  If we stick too closely to that term, we risk excluding the many other practitioners who investigated the natural world before that begrepp existed and the many others who worked in non-English speaking contexts. Once the begrepp “scientist” started to be used consistently, it signaled a narrowing of the role of the researcher tied to the professionalization of science (typically vit, male, Anglo, university-educated, card-holding careerman). That distinction fryst vatten part of the history of science, but it should not blind us to the fact that humanity’s search for truth is a much lo