The Encyclopaedia Britannica guide to the 100 most influential scientists / the most important scientists from ancient Greece to the present day

Annotation The 100 Most Influential Scientists is part of the Britannica Guide Series that offers a look into 100 scientists from Ancient Greece to the present day. The Britannica Guides series offers an essential introduction to many of the key issues of our time. Clear, accurate, and meticulously researched, the series gives both background and analysis for when you need to know for sure what is really happening in the world, whether you are an expert, student, or traveler Contents 6 Introduction 10 Learning from the Lessons of History 10 Thales of Miletus 20 Pythagoras 21 Hippocrates 22 Plato 24 Aristotle 26 Euclid 31 Archimedes 35 Pliny the Elder 37 Ptolemy 41 Galen of Pergamum 45 Al-Khwārizmī 48 Avicenna 50 Roger Bacon 53 Leonardo da Vinci 56 Nicolaus Copernicus 62 Paracelsus 66 Andreas Vesalius 70 Tycho Brahe 72 Girodano Bruno 75 Francis Bacon, Viscount St Alban 79 Galileo Galilei 84 Johannes Kepler 89 William Harvey 94 René Descartes 97 Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke 101 John Ray 104 Sir Isaac Newton 107 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 114 Leonhard Euler 117 Carolus Linnaeus 119 Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon 123 Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 126 Henry Cavendish 129 Joseph Priestley 134 James Watt 137 Luigi Galvani and Conte Alessandro Volta 140 Sir William Herschel and Caroline Herschel 143 Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier 147 Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace 151 Edward Jenner 154 Georges, Baron Cuvier 156 Alexander von Humboldt 159 Sophic Germain 164 Carl Friedrich Gauss 166 Sir Humphry Davy 170 Jöns Jacob Berzelius 173 John James Audubon 176 Michael Faraday 178 Charles Babbage and Ada King, countess of Lovelace 184 Sir Charles Lyell, Baronet 188 Louis Agassiz 191 Charles Darwin 194 Évariste Galois 204 Sir Francis Galton 207 Gregor Mendel 210 Louis Pasteur 213 Alfred Russel Wallace 217 William Thomson, Baron Kelvin 220 James Clerk Maxwell 225 Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev 228 Robert Koch 231 Georg Cantor 235 Henri Poincaré 238 Sigmund Freud 242 Nikola Tesla 249 Max Planck 252 William Bateson 255 Marie Curie and Pierre Curie 257 Sir Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson 260 Carl Gustav Jung 264 Albert Einstein 267 Alfred Lothar Wegener 278 Sir Alexander Fleming 280 Niels Bohr 281 Erwin Schrödinger 286 Srinivasa Ramanujan 289 Edwin Powell Hubble 290 Enrico Fermi 292 John von Neumann 296 George Gamow 300 J. Robert Oppenheimer 302 Kurt Gödel 305 Hans Bethe 306 Rachel Carson 310 Alan M. Turing 311 Norman Ernest Borlaug 315 Sir Fred Hoyle 316 Francis Harry Compton Crick and James Dewey Watson 317 Richard P. Feynman 320 Rosalind Franklin 324 Jack Kilby 325 John Forbes Nash Jr 327 Edward O. Wilson 328 Jane Goodall 331 Sir Harold W. Kroto, Richard E. Smalley, and Robert F. Curl Jr 332 Stephen Jay Gould 334 Stephen W. Hawking 336 J. Craig Venter and Francis Collins 337 Steven Pinker 340 Sir Tim Berners-Lee 342 Index 344 A 344 B 344 C 345 D 346 E 346 F 347 G 347 H 348 I 348 J 348 K 348 L 349 M 349 N 349 O 350 P 350 R 351 S 351 T 352 U 352 V 352 W 352 X 352 Z 352 From ancient times to the present day, a collection of capsule biographies profiles one hundred important scientists whose theories and discoveries have transformed the way in which we think about the world around us, including Thales, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Copernicus, and Albert Einstein, among others. Original.