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Doce grandes científicos

By Mª Milagros Villanueva Rodríguez

About this book

Science is a fundamental aspect of the modern world. In this book we present a series of biographies of twelve significant scientists (Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Pasteur, Madame Curie, Einstein, Böhr, Severo Ochoa and Stephen W. Hawking). They represent all times and disciplines (biology, physics, mathematics, etc.), so that we can see the development of science through time.

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Scientists were born as such during the Rennaisance, when well-to-do men decided to study the physical world just as a hobby, and they looked back to Greek masters to establish the basis of how the study of nature should be undertaken. Then Rationalism was in vogue, and science developed independently. As a paradox, nowadays we are going back to an interdisciplinary approach because the complexity of the processes under study demand the presence of specialists who are familiar with multiple aspects.

As science is rarely constructed on its own, in each biography we include many relevant names directly or indirectly related to the protagonist, who contributed to the evolution of a discipline. From all of these figures we have important breakthroughs that have changed the horizons of knowledge and our quality of life.