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The 100 Most Influential Scientists
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528 pages, Paperback
First published September 25, 1997
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February 17, 2015
I’m a bit of a fan of ‘titbit’ books that you can pick up; gain something useful from by way of inspiration, information, motivation and probably any other of a hundred other words ending in –ion; and put down without worrying about losing your place!
This book certainly fulfils that criterion. It takes its subjects and provides a potted history of their achievements and lives and why, in the opinion of the author, they rank where they do. As with all lists, of course, there will be a range of opinions and the author is never going to please all of the people all of the time! In my own case I’m pleased that Newton was deemed worthy of the number one slot but disappointed that the top twenty is quite so dominated by physicists with rest relatively meagrely represented by four biologists, two chemists, a psychologist and an anthropologist. Of the chemists, Lavoisier weighs in at number 8 whilst, Twentieth Century double Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling makes 16. I suppose it’s arguable if Mendeleev ought to have been higher than a lowly 47 but I’m disappointed he doesn’t feature higher up the league table!
But, of course, that is the fun of such books and for the price you can pick up this one – worth every penny!
This book certainly fulfils that criterion. It takes its subjects and provides a potted history of their achievements and lives and why, in the opinion of the author, they rank where they do. As with all lists, of course, there will be a range of opinions and the author is never going to please all of the people all of the time! In my own case I’m pleased that Newton was deemed worthy of the number one slot but disappointed that the top twenty is quite so dominated by physicists with rest relatively meagrely represented by four biologists, two chemists, a psychologist and an anthropologist. Of the chemists, Lavoisier weighs in at number 8 whilst, Twentieth Century double Nobel Laureate, Linus Pauling makes 16. I suppose it’s arguable if Mendeleev ought to have been higher than a lowly 47 but I’m disappointed he doesn’t feature higher up the league table!
But, of course, that is the fun of such books and for the price you can pick up this one – worth every penny!
December 11, 2021
Very superficial coverage of each person.
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