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Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Focuses on Benjamin Franklin's role as an inventor of whimsical gadgets and practical contraptions, with an emphasis on his experiment of flying a kite during a rainstorm.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Through interviews, rare footage, artifacts, photos, and audio recordings, tells the biography of Raemer Schreiber, one of the physicists participating in the Manhattan Project.
Author
Publisher
Incorrigible Arts/ Embassy Books & Laundry
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"... the true story of Thomas Townsend Brown - a little-known scientist whose discoveries in the realm of relativity and gravity control maybe more than the human race can handle."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Wu Chien Shiung was born in China 100 years ago, girls did not attend school. But her parents named their daughter "Courageous Hero" and encouraged her love of science. This biography follows Wu as she battles sexism at home and racism in the United States of America to become what Newsweek magazine called the "Queen of Physics" for her work on how atoms split"--
6) Feynman
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
262 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Written by nonfiction comics mainstay Jim Ottaviani and brilliantly illustrated by First Second author Leland Myrick, Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A gripping new scientific biography of the revered Nobel Prize–winning physicist (and curious character) Richard Feynman.
Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and bestselling author, offers a unique scientific biography: a rollicking narrative
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Language
English
Formats
Description
J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war, and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress. In this magisterial, acclaimed biography twenty-five years in the making, Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin capture Oppenheimer's life and times, from his early career to his central role in the...
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