Lives Of The Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (and What The Neighbors Thought)

by Kathleen Krull

2021-01-10 01:24:56

Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work-and maybe even dull. But take another look. Did you know that it''s believed Galileo was scolded by the Roman Inquisition for sassing his mom? That Isaac Newton loved to examine soap bubble... Read more
Scientists have a reputation for being focused on their work-and maybe even dull. But take another look. Did you know that it''s believed Galileo was scolded by the Roman Inquisition for sassing his mom? That Isaac Newton loved to examine soap bubbles? That Albert Einstein loved to collect joke books, and that geneticist Barbara McClintock wore a Groucho Marx disguise in public? With juicy tidbits about everything from favorite foods to first loves, the subjects of Kathleen Krull and Kathryn Hewitt''s Lives of the Scientists: Experiments, Explosions (and What the Neighbors Thought) are revealed as creative, bold, sometimes eccentric-and anything but dull. Less

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File size10 X 7 X 0.3 in
Print pages96
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
Publication date September 6, 2016
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780544810877
Kathleen Krull is well known for her innovative, award-winning nonfiction for young readers, which includes the successful Lives of... series....

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