Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Libraries: Adding Faces to the Facts

Here is an invaluable guide to fascinating biographies of scientists from a wide variety of scientific fields. As fewer students in the United States choose to pursue graduate studies or careers in science, Biographies of Scientists for Sci-Tech Librarians is an essential tool for inspiring individual students to follow any leanings toward science they already have. The books selected for his highly descriptive bibliography helps librarians shatter readers’stereotypes of scientists as monomaniacal and uninteresting people by providing interesting and provocative titles to capture the interest of students and other readers. The biographies included in this very special bibliography were carefully selected for their humor and human insights to give future scientists encouragement, inspiration, and an understanding of the origins of particular scientific fields. These biographies are unique in that they explore the whole personality of the scientist, giving students a glimpse at the variety and drama of the lives beyond well-known contributions or Nobel prize accomplishments. Exciting explorations of scientists‘lives are included representing a wide range of fields including mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, geology, animal science, plant breeding, and medicine.