The Scientists (book)
# The Scientists (book)

The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery (2012), edited by Andrew Robinson, is a collection of 43 biographies of a selection of the greatest scientists of all time. An updated paperback edition of the book entitled The Scientists: Pioneers of Discovery appeared in 2023.

## Overview

The book's chapters are contributed by various authors and cover the following scientists (some in pairs) in a number of parts:

### Universe

* Nicolaus Copernicus
* Johannes Kepler
* Galileo Galilei
* Isaac Newton
* Michael Faraday
* James Clerk Maxwell
* Albert Einstein
* Edwin Powell Hubble

### Earth

* James Hutton
* Charles Lyell
* Alexander von Humboldt
* Alfred Wegener

### Molecules and matter

* Robert Boyle
* Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
* John Dalton
* Dmitri Mendeleev
* August Kekulé
* Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
* Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman

### Inside the atom

* Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
* Ernest Rutherford
* Niels Bohr
* Linus Carl Pauling
* Enrico Fermi
* Hideki Yukawa

### Life

* Carl Linnaeus
* Jan IngenHousz
* Charles Darwin
* Gregor Mendel
* Jan Purkinje
* Santiago Ramón y Cajal
* Francis Crick and James Watson

### Body and mind

* Andreas Vesalius
* William Harvey
* Louis Pasteur
* Francis Galton
* Sigmund Freud
* Alan Turing
* John von Neumann
* Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey

## Translations

The book has been translated into a number of languages other than English:

* Czech: Vědci, Slovart, 2013.
* Dutch: De Grote Wetenschappers, Fontaine Uitgevers, 2013.
* German: Faszination Forschung, Parthas Verlag, 2013.
* Japanese: 世界の科学者図鑑, Hara Shobo, 2013.
* Korean: The Great Scientists / 위대한 과학자들, Knowledge Gallery, 2012.
* Spanish: Los Grandes Científicos, Lunwerg Editores, 2012.
* Turkish: Bilim Insanlari, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2013.
* Vietnamese: Những Nhà Khoa Học, Kim Đồng Publishing House, 2017.

## Reviews

The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including:

* Amazon
* The Bulletin of The Royal College of Pathologists
* Choice
* The Irish Times
* The Lancet
* Nature
* San Francisco Book Review
* Science News
* The Scotsman
