Series:

Unlocking the Secrets of Science

15 total works

Cover of Enrico Fermi and the Nuclear Reactor
Examines the life of the Nobel Prize-winning Italian physicist who, among other achievements, developed the world's first nuclear reactor as part of the effort to create the first nuclear bomb.

Cover of Frederick Banting and the Discovery of Insulin
Recounts the life of the Canadian doctor and how his research led to the discovery of insulin and a treatment for diabetes.

Cover of Henry Ford and the Assembly Line

Cover of Lise Meitner and the Atomic Age

Cover of Willem Einthoven and the Story of Electrocardiography

Cover of Gerhard Domagk and the Discovery of Sulfa

Cover of Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity

Cover of Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

by John Bankston

Published 1 June 2002
Examines the life and accomplishments of the French oceanographer, describing his work studying and filming the undersea world.

Cover of Robert Jarvik and the First Artificial Heart

Cover of Edward Teller and the Development of the Hydrogen Bomb

Cover of Robert Goddard and the Liquid Rocket Engine

Cover of Christiaan Barnard and the First Human Heart Transplant

Cover of Francis Crick and James Watson

Francis Crick and James Watson

by John Bankston

Published 31 December 2003

Cover of Alexander Fleming and the Story of Penicillin

Cover of Jonas Salk and the Polio Vaccine
A biography of the scientist and humanitarian who discovered the vaccine for polio, a disease which crippled many people in the early part of the twentieth century.