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Living Biographies of Great Scientists

By: Henry Thomas, Dana Lee Thomas
Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon
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Publisher's Summary

Hear the stories of the scientists who have shaped the past 2,000 years. This audiobook provides an absorbing and intimate account of the lives of 20 eminent scientists who reached the heights of human achievement. They include Archimedes, Roger Bacon, Copernicus, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Dalton, Humboldt, Huxley, Agassiz, Kelvin, Haeckel, Steinmetz, Faraday, Pasteur, Curie, Mendel, Darwin, Banting, and Einstein.
©1945 by Garden City Publishers, Inc. (P)1995 by Blackstone Audiobooks

Critic Reviews

"These biographical sketches are written with naturalness and charm." (The New York Times)
"It is the art of the Thomases to write of the scientists as if they knew them personally; their biographies are vivid and supremely interesting." (The Miami Herald)

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