100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World
John Balchin
'If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.'
- Sir Isaac Newton
This audiobook introduces 100 of these giants of scientific discovery: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry and genetics.
Spanning from the ancient world to the 20th century, these figures include:
100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World provides riveting insight into the men and women who shaped the world today.
Duration - 9h 30m.
Author - John Balchin.
Narrator - Colin Mace.
Published Date - Sunday, 07 January 2024.
Copyright - © 2019 Arcturus Holdings Limited ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
'If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.' - Sir Isaac Newton This audiobook introduces 100 of these giants of scientific discovery: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme skepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavor, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, to the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry and genetics. Spanning from the ancient world to the 20th century, these figures include: 100 Great Scientists Who Changed the World provides riveting insight into the men and women who shaped the world today. Duration - 9h 30m. Author - John Balchin. Narrator - Colin Mace. Published Date - Sunday, 07 January 2024. Copyright - © 2019 Arcturus Holdings Limited ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:00:08
Foreword
Duration:00:03:34
Anaximander
Duration:00:05:38
Pythagoras
Duration:00:05:49
Hippocrates of Cos
Duration:00:05:41
Democritus of Abdera
Duration:00:05:45
Plato
Duration:00:05:50
Aristotle
Duration:00:05:25
Euclid
Duration:00:05:51
Archimedes
Duration:00:05:58
Hipparchus
Duration:00:05:14
Zhang Heng
Duration:00:05:52
Ptolemy
Duration:00:05:28
Galen of Pergamum
Duration:00:05:40
Al-Khwarizmi
Duration:00:06:21
Johannes Gutenberg
Duration:00:05:46
Leonardo da Vinci
Duration:00:05:58
Nicolas Copernicus
Duration:00:05:57
Andreas Vesalius
Duration:00:05:51
William Gilbert
Duration:00:05:41
Francis Bacon
Duration:00:05:47
Galileo Galilei
Duration:00:06:00
Johannes Kepler
Duration:00:06:11
William Harvey
Duration:00:06:13
Johann van Helmont
Duration:00:05:44
René Descartes
Duration:00:06:19
Blaise Pascal
Duration:00:05:48
Robert Boyle
Duration:00:05:47
Christiaan Huygens
Duration:00:06:06
Anton van Leeuwenhoek
Duration:00:06:03
Robert Hooke
Duration:00:05:54
Sir Isaac Newton
Duration:00:05:58
Edmund Halley
Duration:00:06:06
Thomas Newcomen
Duration:00:05:44
Daniel Fahrenheit
Duration:00:06:16
Benjamin Franklin
Duration:00:05:37
Joseph Black
Duration:00:05:45
Henry Cavendish
Duration:00:05:56
Joseph Priestley
Duration:00:05:53
James Watt
Duration:00:05:31
Charles de Coulomb
Duration:00:05:35
Joseph Montgolfier
Duration:00:05:41
Karl Wilhelm Scheele
Duration:00:05:25
Antoine Lavoisier
Duration:00:05:49
Count Alessandro Volta
Duration:00:05:36
Edward Jenner
Duration:00:05:41
John Dalton
Duration:00:05:38
André-Marie Ampère
Duration:00:05:28
Amedeo Avogadro
Duration:00:06:22
Joseph Gay-Lussac
Duration:00:06:18
Charles Babbage
Duration:00:05:50
Michael Faraday
Duration:00:05:46
Charles Darwin
Duration:00:05:58
James Joule
Duration:00:05:27
Louis Pasteur
Duration:00:05:53
Johann Mendel
Duration:00:05:47
Jean-Joseph Lenoir
Duration:00:05:38
Lord Kelvin
Duration:00:06:00
James Maxwell
Duration:00:05:28
Alfred Nobel
Duration:00:05:38
Wilhelm Gottlieb Daimler
Duration:00:05:56
Dmitri Mendeleev
Duration:00:05:48
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Duration:00:05:28
Thomas Alva Edison
Duration:00:05:34
Alexander Graham Bell
Duration:00:05:21
Antoine-Henri Becquerel
Duration:00:05:43
Paul Ehrlich
Duration:00:05:34
Nikola Tesla
Duration:00:05:49
Sir Joseph John Thomson
Duration:00:05:37
Sigmund Freud
Duration:00:05:53
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz
Duration:00:05:14
Max Planck
Duration:00:05:35
Leo Baekeland
Duration:00:05:36
Marie Curie
Duration:00:05:52
Sir Ernest Rutherford
Duration:00:05:52
The Wright Brothers
Duration:00:05:47
Guglielmo Marconi
Duration:00:05:38
Frederick Soddy
Duration:00:05:21
Albert Einstein
Duration:00:06:09
Sir Alexander Fleming
Duration:00:05:35
Robert Goddard
Duration:00:05:49
Niels Bohr
Duration:00:06:05
Erwin Schrödinger
Duration:00:05:50
Henry Moseley
Duration:00:04:47
Edwin Hubble
Duration:00:05:41
Sir James Chadwick
Duration:00:05:30
Frederick Banting
Duration:00:05:31
Louis de Broglie
Duration:00:05:22
Enrico Fermi
Duration:00:05:34
Werner Heisenberg
Duration:00:05:10
Linus Pauling
Duration:00:05:22
Robert Oppenheimer
Duration:00:05:28
Sir Frank Whittle
Duration:00:05:20
Edward Teller
Duration:00:05:32
William Shockley
Duration:00:05:15
Alan Turing
Duration:00:05:15
Jonas Salk
Duration:00:05:40
Rosalind Franklin
Duration:00:05:21
James Dewey Watson
Duration:00:05:22
Stephen Hawking
Duration:00:05:32
Tim Berners-Lee
Duration:00:05:50
Closing Credits
Duration:00:00:19