Search Results: Returned 11 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 11
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c2006., Harmony Books Call No: 615 .2723 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Contributor biographical information More... Summary Note: Examines the history of sulfa, discussing the people involved with its discovery, its effects on the pharmaceutical industry and research, and the various ways it has been used.
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[2018]., Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B MERIAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
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[2018], Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery, includes many reproductions of the original paintings by Maria herself.
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[2018], Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents an illustrated biography of seventeenth-century German naturalist Maria Merian, who was one of the first scientists to document butterfly metamorphosis and is called the world's first ecologist. Features color photographs and illustrations, quotes, a butterfly glossary, poems by the author, historical information, a timeline, and a note describing the author's own experience raising butterflies.
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[2018]., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HI-INT B MER SID Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman explores the extraordinary life and scientific discoveries of Maria Merian, who discovered the truth about metamorphosis and documented the science behind the mystery in this visual biography that features many original paintings by Maria herself."--
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[2018]., Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Merian Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Presents an illustrated biography of seventeenth-century German naturalist Maria Merian, who was one of the first scientists to document butterfly metamorphosis and is called the world's first ecologist. Features color photographs and illustrations, quotes, a butterfly glossary, poems by the author, historical information, a timeline, and a note describing the author's own experience raising butterflies.
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-- How Irène Curie & Lise Meitner revolutionized science and changed the world.2018., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: 539.7 CON Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the story of two female physicists whose discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
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2016., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: 539.7 52 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1934, Irene Curie, working with her husband and fellow physicist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that forever altered the world: artificial radioactivity. Four years later, Curie's breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to the scientific epiphany that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner's unique insight was critical to the revolution in science that led to nuclear energy and the race to build the atomic bomb.
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2016., Algonquin Call No: 920 CONKLING Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Radioactive! presents the story of two women breaking ground in a male-dominated field, scientists still largely unknown despite their crucial contributions to cutting-edge research, in a nonfiction narrative that reads with the suspense of a thriller.
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2016., Adolescent, Algonquin Young Readers Call No: HI-INT 920 CON Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1934, Irene Curie, working with her husband and fellow physicist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that forever altered the world: artificial radioactivity. Four years later, Curie's breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to the scientific epiphany that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner's unique insight was critical to the revolution in science that led to nuclear energy and the race to build the atomic bomb.
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c2005., Mitchell Lane Publishers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A short biography of late nineteenth-century German microbiologist Robert Koch that profiles his life and works which included his study of infectious diseases such as tuberculosis and anthrax and his recognition as the founder of modern bacteriology.