Arthur's Bookshelf
Biographies of Famous Scientists



Erwin Schrödinger

   Schrodinger: Life and Thought   By Walter J. Moore


   Erwin Schrödinger: an introduction to his writings  
By William Taussig Scott

Max Born

   The end of the certain world: the life and science of Max Born  
By Nancy Thorndike Greenspan

   Dynamical theory of crystal lattices   By Max Born, Kun Huang


Albert Einstein

   Einstein: His Life and Times   By Philipp Frank


   Einstein: visionary scientist   By John B. Severance


Charles Darwin

   Darwin   By Adrian J. Desmond, James Richard Moore


   Ever since Darwin: reflections in natural history  
By Stephen Jay Gould

Galileo Galilei

   Galileo: a Life   By James Reston, Jr.


   Galileo and the Scientific Revolution   By Laura Fermi, Gilberto Bernardini


Enrico Fermi

   Atoms in the family: my life with Enrico Fermi   By Laura Fermi


   Enrico Fermi: his work and legacy   By Carlo Bernardini, Luisa Bonolis


Nicholas Copernicus

   Nicolaus Copernicus: Father of Modern Astronomy  
By Barbara A. Somervill, Myra Weatherly

   The Life of Copernicus (1473-1543)   By Pierre Gassendi, Oliver Thill


Robert Boyle

   The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and His Alchemical Quest  
By Lawrence Principe

   Robert Boyle Reconsidered   By Michael Hunter


Niels Bohr

   Atoms, metaphors, and paradoxes: Niels Bohr and the construction of a new  
By Sandro Petruccioli

   Niels Bohr: Reflections on Subject and Object  
By Paul McEvoy

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601)

   On Tycho's island: Tycho Brahe, science, and culture in the sixteenth century  
By John Robert Christianson

   Tycho Brahe: Pioneer of Astronomy   By Don Nardo


Henry Cavendish

   Cavendish: the experimental life   By Christa Jungnickel, Russell McCormmach


   The life of the Hon. Henry Cavendish: including abstracts of his more ...  
by George Wilson

Marie Curie

   Madame Curie: a biography  
By Eve Curie

   Marie Curie: a life   By Susan Quinn


Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829)

   Humphry Davy: science & power   Humphry Davy: science & power


   Young Humphry Davy: the making of an experimental chemist  
By June Z. Fullmer

Michael Faraday (1791-1867):

   Michael Faraday, His Life and Work  
By Silvanus Phillips Thompson

   Michael Faraday and the Royal Institution (the genius of man and place)  
By John Meurig Thomas

Ernest Haeckel (1834-1919)

   From here to eternity: Ernst Haeckel and scientific faith  
By Mario A. Di Gregorio

   A visit to Ceylon   By Ernst Haeckel


William Thomson Kelvin, (1824-1907):

   Degrees Kelvin: a tale of genius, invention, and tragedy  
By David Lindley

   Lord Kelvin and the age of the earth   By Joe D. Burchfield


Johann Kepler (1571-1630):

   Kepler   By Max Caspar, Clarisse Doris Hellman


   Kepler's somnium: the dream, or posthumous work on lunar astronomy  
By Johannes Kepler, Edward Rosen

Sir Charles Lyell, (1797-1875)

   Lyell's Travels in North America   By Charles Lyell


   The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man  
By Charles Lyell

Isaac Newton

   Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer   By Michael White


   The life of Isaac Newton   By Richard S. Westfall


J. Robert Oppenheimer

   J. Robert Oppenheimer: a life   By Abraham Pais, Robert P. Crease


   Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project: insights into J. Robert Oppenheimer ...  
By Cynthia C. Kelly

Blaise Pascal (1623-62):

   Blaise Pascal: reasons of the heart  
By Marvin Richard O'Connell

   Thoughts on religion and philosophy   By Blaise Pascal, Nkosi Ajanaku


James Clerk Maxwell

   The natural philosophy of James Clerk Maxwell  
By P. M. Harman

   Maxwell on the electromagnetic field: a guided study  
By Thomas K. Simpson

Edwin Hubble

   Edwin Hubble: mariner of the nebulae   By Gale E. Christianson


   Edwin Hubble, the discoverer of the big bang universe  
By Aleksandr Sergeevich Sharov, Igor' Dmitrievich Novikov

Nikola Tesla

   Nikola Tesla: a spark of genius  
By Carol Dommermuth-Costa

   Harnessing the Wheelwork of Nature: Tesla's Science of Energy  
By Thomas Valone

Alexander Graham Bell

   Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the conquest of solitude  
By Robert V. Bruce

   The telephone and its several inventors: a history  
By Lewis Coe

Linus Pauling

   General Chemistry   By Linus Pauling


   A lifelong quest for peace: a dialogue  
By Linus Pauling, Daisaku Ikeda, Richard L. Gage

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937)

   My Father, Marconi   By Degna Marconi


   History of the Marconi Company 1874-1965  
By W. J. Baker

Christiaan Huygens

   Huygens: the man behind the principle   By Cornelis Dirk Andriesse


   Huygens and Barrow, Newton and Hooke: pioneers in mathematical analysis and ...  
By V.I. Arnold, Vladimir Igorevich Arnold

Gottfried Leibniz

   Leibniz   By Nicholas Jolley


   The Cambridge companion to Leibniz   By Nicholas Jolley


Francis Bacon

   Francis Bacon   By Perez Zagorin


   Francis Bacon: the temper of a man  
by Catherine Drinker Bowen

Benjamin Franklin, (1706 - 1790)

   The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin   By Gordon S. Wood


   Benjamin Franklin: his life  
By Benjamin Franklin, David Henry Montgomery

Max Planck, (1858 – 1947)

   The dilemmas of an upright man: Max Planck and the fortunes of German science  
By J. L. Heilbron

   Treatise on thermodynamics  
By Max Planck, Alexander Ogg

Werner Heisenberg (1901 – 1976)

   Heisenberg's war: the secret history of the German bomb  
By Thomas Powers

   Encounters with Einstein: and other essays on people, places, and particles  
By Werner Heisenberg

Thomas Edison

   Edison: His Life and Inventions, Volume 1  
By Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin

   Edison: inventing the century   By Neil Baldwin


Jonas Salk

   Polio: an American story  
By David M. Oshinsky

   Jonas Salk: Polio Pioneer  
By Corinne J. Naden, Rose Blue

Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)

   Gregor Mendel's Experiments on plant hybrids: a guided study  
By Gregor Mendel, Alain F. Corcos, Floyd V. Monaghan

   The Monk in the Garden: The Lost and Found Genius of Gregor Mendel, the ...  
By Robin Marantz Henig

Wright Brothers

   The Wright brothers: a biography  
By Fred C. Kelly

   Wilbur and Orville: A Biography of the Wright Brothers  
By Fred Howard

Sigmund Freud

   Sigmund Freud   By Richard Wollheim


   Sigmund Freud: his life and mind  
By Helen Walker Puner


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