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Scientists Biographies

Accorsi, William Rachel Carson
Adler, David Thomas Edison: great inventor
  Benjamin Franklin: printer, inventor, statesman
Aliki The many lives of Benjamin Franklin
  A weed is a flower: the life of George Washington Carver
Anderson, Margaret Charles Darwin: naturalist
  Carl Linnaeus: father of classification
  Isaac Newton: greatest scientist of all time
Baker, Rachel America's first woman astronomer, Maria Mitchell
Coerr, Eleanor Jane Goodall
Coil, Suzanne George Washington Carver
Datnow, Beverly Edwin Hubble: discoverer of galaxies
Dunlap, Julie Birds in the bushes: a story about Margaret Morse Nice
Dunn, Andrew Alexander Graham Bell
DuTemple, Lesley Jacques Cousteau
Evan, J Edward Charles Darwin, revolutionary biologist
Farley, Karen Robert H. Goddard
Ferber, Elizabeth A life with animals: Jane Goodall
Ferris, Jeri What are you figuring now: a story about Benjamin Banneker
Fisher Leonard Galileo
Fritz, Jean What's the big idea, Ben Franklin
Fuchs, Carol Jane Goodall: the chimpanzees' friend
Ghermann, Beverly The mysterious rays of Dr. Rontgen
Goldenstern, Joyce Albert Einstein: physicist and genius
Goodall, Jane My life with the chimpanzees
Greene, Carol Benjamin Franklin: a man with many jobs
  Marie Curie: pioneer physicist
  Thomas Alva Edison: bringer of light
Harlan, Judith Sounding the alarm: a biography of Rachel Carson
Heckart, Barbara Edmond Halley: the man and his comet
Hightower, Paul Galileo: astronomer and physicist
Karp, Walter Charles Darwin and the origin of species
Kittredge, Mary Barbara McClintock, biologist
Klare, Roger Gregor Mendel: father of genetics
Lampton, Christopher Thomas Alva Edison
Lomask, Milton Robert H. Goddard: space pioneer
Mann, John Louis Pasteur: father of bacteriology
McKissack, Pat George Washington Carver, the peanut scientist
McPherson, Stephanie Rooftop astronomer: a story about Maria Mitchell
  Ordinary genius: the story of Albert Einstein
Meltzer, Milton Benjamin Franklin: the new American
Mitchell, Barbara A pocketful of goobers: a story about George Washington Carver
Nirgiotis, Nicholas Thomas Edison
Parker, Steve Albert Einstein and relativity
  Alexander Graham Bell and the telephone
  Aristotle and scientific thought
  Benjamin Franklin and electricity
  Charles Darwin and evolution
  Galileo and the universe
  Guglielmo Marconi and radio
  Isaac Newton and gravity
  Louis Pasteur and germs
  Marie Curie and radium
  Thomas Edison and electricity
Poynter, Margaret Marie Curie: discoverer of radium
Pringle, Laura Elephant woman: Cynthia Moss explores the world of elephants
Ransom, Candice F Listening to crickets: a story of Rachel Carson
Roper, Laura Louis Pasteur
Sandak, Cass Benjamin Franklin
Sis, Peter Starry messenger
Smith, Linda Louis Pasteur: disease fighter
Streissguth, Tom Rocket man: the story of Robert Goddard
Yount, Lisa Antoine Lavoisier: founder of modern chemistry
  Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek: first to see microscopic life
  Louis Pasteur
  William Harvey: discoverer of how blood circulates

 

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Asimov, Isaac Breakthroughs in science
Bixby, William The world of Galileo and Newton
Dash, Joan The triumph of discovery
Keene, Ann Earthkeepers
Poynter, Margaret The Leakeys: undiscovering the origins of humankind
Pflaum, Rosalynd Marie Curie and her daughter Irene
Richards, Norman Dreamers and doers
St. George, Judith Dear Dr. Bell - your friend, Helen Keller
  Talking with adventurers
Vare, Ethlie Ann Women inventors and their discoveries

 

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