New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: 8 Volume Set by Koertge, Noretta
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: 8 Volume Set by Koertge, Noretta

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: 8 Volume Set

The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography is the first major expansion of the classic Dictionary of Scientific...
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Author: Noretta Koertge
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New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: 8 Volume Set by Koertge, Noretta

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: 8 Volume Set

$6,031.95
New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: 8 Volume Set by Koertge, Noretta

New Dictionary of Scientific Biography: 8 Volume Set

$6,031.95
Author: Noretta Koertge
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The New Dictionary of Scientific Biography is the first major expansion of the classic Dictionary of Scientific Biography, and features more than 800 completely new articles. This work extends, complements, and comments upon the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography, which contains thousands of biographies of mathematicians and natural scientists from all countries and from all historical periods. The Dictionary of Scientific Biography presents an accurate and reliable narrative of the development of science, not as a mere accumulation of technical information but as the collective accomplishment that has ordered our understanding of nature. More than 500 of the new articles are devoted to scientists deceased since 1980 and not previously treated in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography including Hans Bethe, Francis Crick, Richard Feynman, Stephen Jay Gould, Fred Hoyle, Mary Leakey, Konrad Lorenz, Barbara McClintock, Linus Pauling, Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, and Edward Teller. There are also more than 75 articles on figures overlooked in the original Dictionary of Scientific Biography (from Chrysippus to Kinsey) and 250 commentaries on important careers that have inspired new research and interpretation (from Archimedes and Aristotle to Darwin, Einstein, and Oppenheimer).

Through a special arrangement with the American Council of Learned Societies, Charle

Author: Noretta Koertge
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 12/14/2007
Pages: 4400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 25.65lbs
Size: 20.00h x 11.75w x 5.75d
ISBN: 9780684313207


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Supplements 11/15/2007 pg. 46
Library Journal 06/01/2008 pg. 128
Booklist 06/01/2008 pg. 132
School Library Journal 08/01/2008 pg. 76

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