David Millar, Ian Millar, John Millar

The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists

Mitwirkender: Millar, David I. A.; Millar, John; Millar, Ian

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Cambridge Dictionary of Scientists is an invaluable one-stop reference book for anyone wanting a brief and accurate account of the life and work of those who created science from its very beginnings to the present day. This alphabetically organized, illustrated biographical dictionary has been thoroughly revised and updated, covering over 1,500 key scientists (157 more than in the previous edition) from 40 countries. Fields represented include physics, chemistry, biology, geology, astronomy, mathematics, medicine, meteorology and technology, with special attention paid to pioneer women whose achievements and example opened the way to scientific careers for others. As well as Nobel Prizewinners, this second edition includes winners of the Fields Medal, the mathematician's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Illustrated with around 150 portraits, diagrams, maps and tables, and with special panel features, this book is a clear and accessible guide to the world's prominent scientific personalities.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2., überarb. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Altersempfehlung: 13 bis 17 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 710g
• ISBN-13: 9780521000628
• ISBN-10: 0521000629
• Artikelnr.: 10531240

Autorenporträt

David Millar is a grammar schoolboy from Birmingham born in the middle of the war. He read chemistry at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, theology at St Catharine's College, Cambridge and was Vicar of West Dean, Sussex. Leaving the church in 1975, he read psychology at Birkbeck College London and trained as a clinical psychologist at the University of Leeds. He is a Lifetime Honorary Senior Clinician, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, where he was a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Head of the Tavistock multidisciplinary adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy training. He is a Fellow, training and supervising analyst, and one-time Chair of Education of the British Psychoanalytical Society and Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Inhaltsangabe

List of panels; About the authors; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; Symbols and conventions; A-Z Dictionary; Chronology; Nobel prizewinners in science; Winners of the Fields Medal for Mathematics; Index.

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List of panels
About the authors
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the first edition
Symbols and conventions
A-Z Dictionary
Chronology
Nobel prizewinners in science
Winners of the Fields Medal for Mathematics
Index.

Rezensionen

'This is a superb collection of admirably concise scientific biographies; I wish I had owned a copy when I started presenting television programmes on the history of science.' Adam Hart-Davis