100 Scientists Who Shaped World History

My homeschooled child has this as a text for Life Science this year. I opened the book and read the stories of the first several scientists. This is not an exhaustive study of the person nor the scientific achievement - it is a "mini-biography" of each person. Just enough to have basic knowledge of each individual included - a great stepping stone if you will. The truly interested reader can find additional books with more depth if desired.The PhD (Chemistry), who teaches the science classes my children attend has this as a required text. I think this is a great "general resource" book for a home library - just wish it was in hardcover!The author does a good job with the people chosen for inclusion.

This is a well written book on the most influential scientists. My son is researching astronomers this year and we wanted a book to have on hand for a resource.

I bought this for my grandsons as a great reference book. Somewhere down the line, they may need to do a report on some scientist. Done very well for a young reader. There were many I never heard of which was very enlightening !!! they all were important contributors to science.

Has been a great addition to our homeschool library! Lots of great information!

Perfect book for school. Filled with loads of facts.

Purchased for my son. He loves it.

The cover has eye-popping art but it’s sadly black and white inside. My kids, aged 7 & 10, love history and people of interest but this book wasn’t exciting enough to look at to keep their attention…I returned it immediately.

This is a book that is fatally marred by the author's need to be politically correct for its intended audience--public school libraries. Rather than making an honest effort at discovering a representative list of the 100 scientists who have made the genuinely great strides toward our understanding of our world, he has produced a bogus list that the fearful ladies of the pedagogical world will thrust on our gullible youth, the better to keep them from having the dangerous thought that white European males have dominated the sciences.How else to explain the presence of George Washington Carver, whose claim to fame was that he was "born a slave" in 1866. Really. The Emancipation Proclamation was effective in 1863, the 13th amendment passed in 1865, and the Civil War ended in 1866. Is this a stretcher? And was he really an accomplished scientist? Ha! PC follies for the gullible.And in the list we find Sigmund Freud, of all people! Freud was not even a scientist. He never produced any data that could be statistically analyzed, graphed, or replicated. Only introspective self-delusions were his stock in trade. His theories on human psychology are entirely discredited today--who among us believes that a boy's love for his mother is sexual, and that little girls are messed up because they mourn for what is missing between their legs? Why him, but not Nostradamus or Madam Blavatsky, or the inventor of homeopathy, whoever he is?To include Margaret Mead here is absurd in light of her shoddy work in Samoa, devastatingly discredited by Derek Freeman. Her "work," mostly printed up in Redbook, a popular magazine for ladies, has sunk into a well deserved oblivion.The list includes eleven women, who range from comparatively minor figures to relative nonentities, and are clearly out of their league. Science has been an overwhelmingly white male enterprise, and it is dishonest to pretend otherwise.And not to include Robert Koch, Willard Gibbs, E. O. Wilson, R. A. Fisher, or even Chandrasekar, and others, who generated whole new scientific fields, is a disgrace.

The book i received had a stain on the edge. It looks like someone has spilled tea on it. It doesn't look like a brand new even though i paid the price for one.