The scientists featured here, including a number of Nobel Prize winners, work in fields ranging from chemistry and genetics to meteorology and anthropology. All of them are exploring profound ideas that have shaped the world. Filled with diagrams, photographs, educational experiments young readers perform themselves, and inspiring discussions on how to embark on a science career, Sensational Scientists is perfect for future scientists who want to probe the how and why of life.
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Gr. 8-11. Readers won't want to read every profile in this wide-ranging collective biography, which introduces 24 groundbreaking and prizewinning contemporary scientists born or residing in Canada, but they will find many stories of interest. Shell interviewed each of the scientists, and the personal facts he gleaned add interest. The style is occasionally condescending ("It's nice to know that there are such things as black holes out there in the universe." Nice?), and, though serious students will welcome the attention to subjects seldom addressed in YA books, much of the math, physics, and molecular genetics may be too difficult for the average reader. Discussions of ecology, physical anthropology, and biology, however, will be accessible to a wider audience. Each chapter includes diagrams, quotes, photos, a discussion of the science , 0 a lab activity, a few additional references, and career advice ("So you want to be a physicist?"). An extensive glossary is appended. Hazel Rochman
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a good book but all scientists are from Canada,
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Nobel Prize, Explore Further, University of Toronto, Royal Society of Canada, University of British Columbia, Cambridge University, United States, Hong Kong, Order of Canada, Royal Society of London, Walter Lewis, Biruté Galdikas, Fence Effect, World War, Henri Darmon, Hubert Reeves, Louis Taillefer, Michael Smith, Bell Labs, Chalk River, Doreen Kimura, Gold Medal, Harvard University, Ontario Family Members Father, Ricker Curve New!
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Nobel Prize, Explore Further, University of Toronto, Royal Society of Canada, University of British Columbia, Cambridge University, United States, Hong Kong, Order of Canada, Royal Society of London, Walter Lewis, Biruté Galdikas, Fence Effect, World War, Henri Darmon, Hubert Reeves, Louis Taillefer, Michael Smith, Bell Labs, Chalk River, Doreen Kimura, Gold Medal, Harvard University, Ontario Family Members Father, Ricker Curve New!
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- Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance: Hands-On Field Package (5th Edition) by Charles J. Krebs on page 91, and page 97
- Medical Botany: Plants Affecting Man's Health by Walter Hepworth Lewis on page 115
- Atmospheric Data Analysis (Cambridge Atmospheric and Space Science Series) by Roger Daley on page 48
- The Time Machine by H. G. Wells on page 37
- The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection by R. A. Fisher on page 140
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