An absorbing and easy-to-read introduction to the growth of scientific ideas and knowledge since 1500. From Galileo, Newton and Darwin to Ernest Rutherford, Neils Bohrand and Linus Pauling, it presents the scientists who have hypothesised, experimented and revealed the physical workings of our world. It spans disciplines as broad as astronomy, paleontology, chemistry, mathematics, geology, physics, biology and medicine. Each chapter covers a half-century, and the pithy 200-300 word stories are arranged chronologically.
David Ellyard has been closely involved with science all his working life. He has been a researcher, teacher and government policy advisor, and for more than 30 years a science communicate, working in radio television and print.
His previous publications include books on weather and astronomy, and a prize-winning biography of the controversial physicist and public figure Sir Mark Oliphant. Who Discovered What When? combines his love of history with his deep concern for the human and social impacts of new ideas and inventions.