Scientist Biographies Books
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An Appetite for Wonder: The Making of a Scientist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 4,229 ratings — published 2013
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 6,514 ratings — published 1996
My Brief History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 11,221 ratings — published 2013
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 200,182 ratings — published 2007
The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 8,863 ratings — published 1991
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 24,204 ratings — published
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 57,291 ratings — published 2005
After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 2,979 ratings — published 2022
Edison (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 2,838 ratings — published 2019
Madame Curie: A Biography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 5,146 ratings — published 1937
Tesla: Man Out of Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 6,529 ratings — published 1981
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 326 ratings — published 2015
The Accidental Scientist: The Role of Chance and Luck in Scientific Discovery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 252 ratings — published 2013
Tiger Writing: Art, Culture, and the Interdependent Self (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies)
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avg rating 3.78 — 172 ratings — published 2013
Ms. Mentor's New and Ever More Impeccable Advice for Women and Men in Academia (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 48 ratings — published 2008
Alex & Me: How a Scientist and a Parrot Discovered a Hidden World of Animal Intelligence—and Formed a Deep Bond in the Process (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 10,066 ratings — published 2008
An Introduction to Scientific Research (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 19 ratings — published 1991
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 79,455 ratings — published 1995
Letters to a Young Scientist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 4,645 ratings — published 2013
Uncle Tungsten (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 6,993 ratings — published 2001
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 39,497 ratings — published 2011
For the Love of Physics: From the End of the Rainbow to the Edge of Time - A Journey Through the Wonders of Physics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 4,071 ratings — published 2011
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 32,245 ratings — published 2009
Marie Curie: A Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 763 ratings — published 1995
Lab Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 71,463 ratings — published 2016
Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 1,120 ratings — published 1969
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 13,465 ratings — published 1999
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 2,583 ratings — published 2002
Scientists and Their Discoveries (Documenting History)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2001
The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 4,818 ratings — published 2008
Brief Candle in the Dark: My Life in Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,600 ratings — published 2015
Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2,994 ratings — published 2015
On the Move: A Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 21,403 ratings — published 2015
Linnaeus: The Man and His Work (Uppsala Studies in History of Science, Vol 18)
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avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 1983
A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 386 ratings — published 2006
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 638 ratings — published 1992
J.J. Thompson And The Discovery Of The Electron (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1997
England's Leonardo: Robert Hooke and the Seventeenth-Century Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published 2004
The Scientists: A History of Science Told Through the Lives of Its Greatest Inventors (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,233 ratings — published 2002
The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 234 ratings — published 2002
Degrees Kelvin: A Tale of Genius, Invention, and Tragedy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 62 ratings — published 2004
Ernest Rutherford: And the Explosion of Atoms (Oxford Portraits in Science)
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avg rating 3.40 — 10 ratings — published 2003
Marie Curie: And the Science of Radioactivity (Oxford Science Portraits)
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avg rating 4.17 — 84 ratings — published 1996
Galileo and 400 Years of Telescopic Astronomy (Astronomers' Universe)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2010
Math and the Mona Lisa (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 547 ratings — published 2004
Oppenheimer: The Tragic Intellect (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 30 ratings — published 2006
Galileo Galilei: First Physicist (Oxford Science Portraits)
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avg rating 3.95 — 55 ratings — published 1997
Enrico Fermi: And the Revolutions of Modern Physics (Oxford Portraits in Science)
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avg rating 3.29 — 14 ratings — published 1999
Albert Einstein: Physicist & Genius (Essential Lives)
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avg rating 3.50 — 12 ratings — published 2009
Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 18 ratings — published 2000
