TY  - BOOK
AU  - Horvitz, Leslie Alan.
TI  - Eureka!: scientific breakthroughs that changed the world 
SN  - 0471402761
AV  - Q 180.55 .H67 2001
U1  - 509 
PY  - 2002///
CY  - New York
PB  - John Wiley & Sons
KW  - Discoveries in science
KW  - Research
KW  - History
KW  - Scientists
KW  - Biography
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-235) and index; Introduction: A sudden flash of light -- A breath of immoral air: Joseph Priestley and the discovery of oxygen -- Epiphany at Clapham Road: Friedrich Kekulé and the discovery of the structure of carbon compounds -- A visionary from Siberia: Dmitry Mendeleyev and the invention of the periodic table -- The birth of a new science: Charles Darwin and the theory of evolution -- The logic of peas: Gregor Mendel and the laws of heredity -- A dream of the future: Philo Farnsworth and the invention of television -- An encounter on the bridge: William Rowan Hamilton and the discovery of quaternions -- Thinking with the body: Albert Einstein and the theory of relativity -- The secret of life: James Watson, Francis Crick, and the discovery of DNA -- The shapes of the world: Benoit Mandelbrot and the discovery of fractals
ER  -