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1) Marie Curie
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128 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
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English
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Graphic novel biography of historic scientist Marie Curie.
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47 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherine's unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASA's Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time.
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"Best known for his general theory of relativity and the famous equation linking mass and energy, E = mc², Albert Einstein had a lasting impact on the world of science, the extent of which is illuminated--along with his fascinating life and unique personality--in this lively history. In addition to learning all about Einstein's important contributions to science, from proving the existence and size of atoms and launching the field of quantum mechanics...
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63 pages : illustrations ; 38 cm.
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English
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Understand how Einstein came to write the most famous equation in history and see how the world was changed forever. This step-by-step journey through Einstein's mind takes his original manuscripts and makes the accessible to budding scientists everywhere.
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The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...
14) Albert Einstein
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This biography profiles the life and times of German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, whose contributions to the field earned him a Nobel Prize.
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 x 21 cm.
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English
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"Even when he was a kid, Albert Einstein did things his own way. He thought in pictures instead of words, and his special way of thinking helped him understand big ideas like the structure of music and why a compass always points north. Those ideas made him want to keep figuring out the secrets of the universe. Other people thought he was just a dreamer, but because of his curiosity, Einstein grew up to be one of the greatest scientists the world...
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1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Drawing on long-hidden documents, love letters and biographies, Einstein's wife pieces together a partnership of extraordinary passion and intellect that led to one of the greatest theoretical breakthroughs in the twentieth century"--Container.
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Ensayo. Biografía volume 231
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734 pages of plates, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
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Español
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The first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Biographer Isaacson explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk--a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn't get a teaching job or a doctorate--became the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom and the universe. His success came from questioning conventional...
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1 videodisc (approximately 112 min.) : sound, color, Dolby stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Einstein arrived at his 1905 discovery that the realms of matter and energy are linked. Reveals the roots of this breakthrough in the human stories of scientists Michael Farady, Antoine Lavoisier, and Lise Meitner, whose innovative thinking helped lead to E=mc², and ultimately unleashed the power of the atom.
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