The Great Scientists is a lavishly-illustrated collection of essays, each devoted to one of history's greatest scientists. From the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, whose work is even now required reading, to the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the greatest practitioners from a wide range of scientific disciplines are represented here. Each essay gives a biographical background for its subject and a description of the main themes of their work, together with concise expositions of some of their key ideas. The thirty-four chronologically-organized essays in this book add up to a biography of science itself. John Farndon lives in London and is the author of over 200 books on a wide range of subjects, including the best-selling Harper Collins Children's Encyclopedia, the Dorling Kindersley Pocket Encyclopedia, How the Earth Works, The Wildlife Atlas and many more. His specialty is science, and he has been short-listed three times for the Copus Junior Science book prize. Alex Woolf is an experienced writer and editor of children's information books, specializing in modern history and science at secondary level. He has written more than twenty books, including Artificial Intelligence and Nazi Germany, both published by Hodder Wayland, and three titles in a series on forensic science, published by Heinemann. Anne Rooney taught at Cambridge and York Universities, before giving it all up to become a full-time writer. Anne is the author of many non-fiction titles on history, philosophy and science & technology, and was long-listed for the Aventis Science Prize, 2004. Anne lives in Cambridge with her daughters and friend Marcel, a blue lobster. Liz Gogerly has more than sixteen years' experience in producing non-fiction titles, both as an author and as an editor. She has written biographies of Nelson Mandela, Dian Fossey, Sigmund Freud, Louis Pasteur and Marie Curie, amongst others. Liz is married and lives in Hove with her husband and son.