Malone, John Williams.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist : Great amateurs of science / John Malone. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, 2002. - vii, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes index

The father of genetics / Gregor Johann Mendel - Comet hunter / David H. Levy - Cepheid star decoder / Henrietta Swan Leavitt - Discoverer of oxygen / Joseph Priestley - Electromagnetic lawgiver / Michael Faraday - Father of radio astronomy / Grote Reber - Communications satellite visionary / Arthur C. Clarke - First modern archaeologist / Thomas Jefferson - Dinosaur hunter / Susan Hendrickson - Bacteriophages discoverer / Felix d’Herelle.


Scientists--Biography