Second revised edition with over 2,000 additional entries. An A-Z of the world of science, with diagrams, topical feature essays, tables and up-to-the minute chronologies. Includes great discoveries and experiments, over 80 tables and chronologies, progress reports on major areas of science, appendices on Nobel prize winners and a thematic index.

A comprehensive dictionary of scientific facts. It contains the biographies of numerous scientists including the Nobel prize winners; the discoveries of each one; the importance of their specialities and how they set about their work; and also what drove and inspired them as human beings.

A comprehensive dictionary of scientific facts. It contains the biographies of numerous scientists including the Nobel prize winners; the discoveries of each one; the importance of their specialities and how they set about their work; and also what drove and inspired them as human beings.