Remarkable Biologists: From Ray to Hamilton

by Ioan James

Book Overview

Following on from the success of his two previous books, Remarkable Mathematicians and Remarkable Physicists, Ioan James now profiles 38 remarkable biologists from the last 400 years. The emphasis is on their varied life-stories, not on the details of their achievements, but when read in sequence their biographies, which are organised chronologically, convey in human terms something of the way in which biology has developed over the years. Scientific...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521699185
• ISBN13: 9780521699181
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.8"