Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists

Description:

This 8-volume set of World Book's Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists is an outstanding reference to the world’s scientists.

More than 1,300 alphabetically arranged biographies are combines with over 700 photographs to provide extensive coverage of scientists, and scientific discoveries and developments.

Key features include:

• Entries about individual agronomists, astronomers, biologists, botanists, chemists, communications specialists, engineers, geologists, inventors, mathematicians, meteorologists, medical specialists, and physicists.

• Fact boxes that provide quick reference to principal categories of information about each scientist.

• Chronologies for selected major scientists, cross-references and a cumulative index in each volume.

• A glossary; a list of additional resources; indexes by nationality, profession and century; list of Nobel Prize winners, and more.

Examples of the dozens of feature articles found throughout the set:

• Advances in Agriculture

• Artificial Intelligence

• Bacteriophage Therapy

• The Benefits of Nanotechnology

• The Development of Atomic Theory

• Exploration of the Ocean Floor

• How Scientific Research Is Shared

• How the Brain’s Activity Is Mapped

• The Language of the Genome

• Mapping the Milky Way

• The Origins of Ethnology

• Radio Telephony

• The Secrets of Starlight

• Virtual Reality