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10) Louis Pasteur
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Discusses the life of Louis Pasteur and his contributions to fighting disease, creating vaccines, and researching the pasteurization process.
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Shares the lesser-known story of how the daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie, assisted by her husband Frederic Joliot, discovered artificial radioactivity and won a Nobel Prize in spite of being denied an advanced education, inspiring physicist Lise Meitner to make a vital discovery about nuclear fission.
14) Louis Pasteur
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Traces the life of Louis Pasteur, from his early childhood and education through his sources of inspiration and challenges faced, early successes, and the work on pasteurization and vaccination for which he is best known.
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The number of scientific discoveries by Louis Pasteur is astounding. From his work on fermentation that led to the process of pasteurization to the rabies vaccine, Pasteur made a huge impact on industry, medicine, and scientific theory. Detailed biography takes readers through Pasteur's life as he makes these incredible discoveries, uncovering the original use for pasteurization, in wine! Interesting sidebars enhance the main content with understandable...
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"A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest champions. In 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy. From that moment onward, the French aristocrat would dedicate his life as a writer and politician to ending despotism in his country and bringing it into a new age. In this authoritative and...
19) Madame Curie
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Young Marie Sklodowska of Poland dreamed of being something more than being just a wife and mother. She defied convention to study physics and mathematics at the Sorbonne and with Pierre Curie, the professor who became her husband, goes on to make one of the greatest breakthroughs in 20th-century science.
20) Louis Pasteur
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Tells the story of the life and work of nineteenth-century French researcher Louis Pasteur.