Explores the life and scientific contributions of the famed English mathematician and natural philosopher.

Explores the life of Gregor Mendel, an Austrian monk whose experiments with pea plants became a foundation for modern genetics.

Details the life and work of Thomas Edison, who developed the electric light bulb and over 1000 patents for other inventions and innovations.

A biography of the German astronomer who discovered three laws of planetary motion.

Examines the personality as well as the thought processes which led this inventor to his discoveries which have helped our understanding of the natural world.

A biography of the nineteenth-century English scientist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity and magnetism.

Examines the personality as well as the thought process which led this physicist to his discoveries which have helped shape our understanding of the natural world.

Profiles the Nobel Prize-winning chemist who described the nature of chemical bonds, made important discoveries in the fields of quantum mechanics, immunology, and evolution, and used his scientific fame to help advance political causes.

Examines the personality as well as the thought process which led this naturalist to his discoveries which have helped shape our understanding of the natural world.

Examines the life of the Polish-born scientist who, with her husband Pierre, was awarded a 1903 Nobel Prize for discovering radium.