E The Great Ideas that Shaped Our World

"The essential lay reader's guide to the greatest and most influential thinkers of modern science. Physics, genetics, the Universe, mathematics and biology - all the key areas of knowledge explored" (Back cover.) CONTENTS INCLUDE: - Thales - Pythagoras - Plato - Aristotle - Galileo Galilei - Isaac Newton - Michael Faraday - Heinrich Hertz - Max Planck - Albert Einstein - Theodor Kaluza and Oscar Klein - Erwin Schrodinger - Werner Heisenberg - Abdus Salam - Democritus - Robert Boyle - Antoine Lavoisier - John Dalton - Edward Frankland - Dmitri Mendeleev - Marie Curie - Ernest Rutherford - Neils Bohr - Linus Pauling - Dorothy Crowfoot - Hodgkin - Richard Feynman - Charles Lyell - Alfred Wegener - James lovelock - Edwin Hubble - George Gamow - Fred Hoyle - Ilya Prigogine - George Boole - David Hilbert - Norbert Weiner - Alan Turing - Claude Shannon - Rene Thom - Benoit Mandelbrot - John Nash - Leonardo da Vinci - James Watt - Thomas Edison - Henry Ford - Ted Nelson - Tim Berners- Lee.