Renton Technical College Library

Scientists' Biographies and Works

 

These are some books by and about scientists, carried in RTC Library:

 

Title/Subject

Call Number

Linnaeus: The Complete Naturalist 508.092 BLUNT 2001
Chrysalis / Maria Merian 508.092 TODD-K 2007
Heretic in Darwin’s Court / Alfred Russel Wallace 508.092 SLOTTEN 2004
The Forgotten Genius :The Biography of Robert Hook, 1635-1703. 509.2 INWOOD 2005
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke 509.2 JARDINE 2005

Lives of a Biologist / John Tyler Bonner

570.92 BONNER 2002

The Snoring Bird: My Families Journey Through a Century of Biology / Bernd Heinrich

570.92 HEINRIC 2008

What Mad Pursuit / Francis Crick

570.92 CRICK 1988

A to Z of Biologists

570.922 YOUNT 2003

Cell Scientists: From Leeuwenhoek to Fuchs/ Various

571.6092 LEE-K 2009

Francis Crick: Of Molecules and Men

572.8 CRICK 2004

Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore’s Life in Science

572.8092 CROTTY 2001

Maz Perutz and the Secrets of Life 572.8092 FERRY 2007
Thinking About Science: Max Delbruck 572.8092 FISCHER 1988

James Watson: Solving the Mystery of DNA

572.8092 HAMILTO 2004

Rosalind Franklin and the Structure of Life

572.8092 POLCOVA 2006

The Double Helix / James Watson 572.86092 WATSON 1997
Avoid Boring People / James D. Watson 572.8092 WATSON 2007
DNA: The Secret of Life / James D. Watson 572.86 WATSON 2003

Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA

572.86092 MADDOX 2003

Rosalind Franklin and DNA

572.86092 SAYRE 2000

Coming To Life / Christiane Nusslein-Volhard 576.5 NUSSLEI 2008
Making Genes, Making Waves / Jon Beckwith 576.5092 BECKWIT 2002

The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock’s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control

576.5092 COMFORT 2001

The Statue Within / Fancois Jacob

576.5092 JACOB 1988

A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock

576.5092 KELLER 2003

Barbara McClintock: Genius of Genetics

576.5092 PASACH 2006

Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code 576.5092 RIDLEY 2006
A Life Decoded / J. Craig Venter 576.5092 VENTER 2007

Barbara McClintock: Pioneering Geneticist

576.5092 SPANGEN 2008

Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of the Gene

576.52092 BANKSTO 2005

Gregor Mendel: Father of Genetics

576.52092 KLARE 1997

Gregor Mendel: Genetics Pioneer

576.52092 GANGORP 2009

Darwin’s Origin of Species / Charles Darwin

576.82092 BROWNE 2006

Life in the Treetops / Margaret D. Lowman

577.34092 LOWMAN 2000

Antony Van Leeuwenhoek and His “Little Animals”

578.092 DOBELL 1960

Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek: First to See Microscopic Life

578.092 YOUNT 1996

Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology

578.77092 STEPHEN 2006

Felix d'Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology 579.092 SUMMERS 1999
The Man Who Saved Turtles / Archie Carr 590.92  DAVIS 2007
Richard Dawkins, How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think 591.5092 RICHARD 2006d
Time, Love, Memory /  Seymour Benzer 591.5092 WEINER 1999

 

This list was created 9/12/2008.   Additional materials may have been added since this list was compiled.  Check the RTC Library Catalog at:  http://www.RTC.edu/library

 

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