Suffering scientist

Author: Nick Arnold
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: When you hear scientists talk confidently, do you think they know everything from astronomy to geography? Don't be fooled by them—scientists don't know everything. If they did, they wouldn't need to conduct experiments and could just sit around with their legs crossed all day. In reality, our scientists still have many unresolved mysteries, and there are still many things we don't know or understand. What made Einstein forget where his home was? Which female scientist was chopped into pieces? What caused Galileo to suffer on the torture rack? Learn how radium was discovered in a garage; who used unusually smelling chemicals to cause a large-scale stench; how Newton triggered a panic about UFOs. From ancient Greek scientific pioneers to modern scientific geniuses, from groundbreaking scientific events to the unknown failures of scientists—The Suffering Scientists presents an authentic and engaging history of science.