100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World

Scientific progress has rarely come easily. This book tells the story of one hundred men and women who pushed back the boundaries of human knowledge, often against extreme scepticism or worse. It ranges widely across the spectrum of scientific endeavour, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo to the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, taking in physics, biology, chemistry and genetics along the way. Together, these are the stories behind the ideas that have shaped the world as we know it - and the ideas still shaping what comes next.