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Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sally Ride became the first American woman to orbit Earth in 1983. She later worked to encourage young people to pursue science. Readers will be inspired by her fascinating story.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The definitive biography of the brilliant, charismatic, and very human physicist and innovator Enrico Fermi.
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory and experiment, Fermi truly was the last man who knew everything--at least about physics....
Author
Publisher
Thunder's Mouth Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This is the dramatic and inspirational first-person story of theoretical physicist, Dr. Ronald Mallett, who recently discovered the basic equations for a working time machine that he believes can be used as a transport vehicle to the past. Combining elements of Rocket Boys and Elegant Universe, Time Traveler follows Mallett's discovery of Einstein's work on space-time, his study of Godel's work on a solution of Einstein's equation that might allow...
6) Sally Ride
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this fascinating picture book, young readers meet Sally Ride, the first American woman to go into space, and learn how she believed science should be inclusive, prompting her to found an organization encouraging better science education so everyone can reach for the stars!
7) Feynman
Author
Publisher
First Second
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning quantum physicist, adventurer, musician, world-class raconteur, and one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century: Richard Feynman. Written by nonfiction comics mainstay Jim Ottaviani and brilliantly illustrated by First Second author Leland Myrick, Feynman tells the story of the great man's life from his childhood in Long Island...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Presents the story of financier Alfred Lee Loomis and his role in the American victory during World War II, discussing Tuxedo Park, the lavish safe haven he created for some of the world's greatest scientists to meet and share ideas.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt & Co
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Gregg Herken's Brotherhood of the Bomb is the fascinating story of the men who founded the nuclear age, fully told for the first time
The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the human conflict between Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller-the scientists most responsible for the advent of weapons of mass destruction.
How did science-and...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Profiles a group of elite scientists who inherited from the Manhattan Project a mission to counsel the government on potential military applications of scientific breakthroughs, in an account that cites their contributions to such projects the "Star Wars" missile defense program and the national system for predicting global climate.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author Philip Dray delves into the lesser-known side of an American icon in Stealing God's Thunder. Benjamin Franklin, more often viewed as a statesman and founding father than as a man of science, challenged religion, science, and reason with his inventions. But in a time when everything was blamed on sin, it was the lightning rod- Franklin's attempt to control the heavens-that caused the greatest controversy.
16) Perfectly reasonable deviations from the beaten track: the collected letters of Richard P. Feynman
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"As the first American woman in space, Sally Ride broke barriers and made her dreams come true. But she wanted to do even more! After leaving NASA, she created science and engineering programs that would help other girls and women make their dreams come true as well." -- Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Bomb meets Code Girls in this nonfiction narrative about the little-known female scientists who were critical to the invention of the atomic bomb during World War II. They were leaning over the edge of the unknown and afraid of what they would discover there--meet the World War II female scientists who worked in the secret sites of the Manhattan Project. Recruited not only from labs and universities from across the United States but also from countries...