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Author Jones, Bessie Zaban, editor.

Title The golden age of science; thirty portraits of the giants of 19th-century science / by their scientific contemporaries. Edited by Bessie Zaban Jones, with an introd. by Everett Mendelsohn.

Publication Info. New York : Simon and Schuster, in cooperation with the Smithsonian Institution, Washington [1966]
[©1966]

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  925 JONES    Check Shelf
Description xxx, iii, 659 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Bibliographical footnotes.
Contents Svante Arrhenius -- Alexander Dallas Bache -- Antoine Henri Becquerel -- Pierre Eugene Marcelin Berthelot -- Leopold von Buch -- Robert Wilhelm Bunsen -- Georges Geopold Chretien Cuvier -- Charles Darwin -- Michael Faraday -- Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac -- David Gill -- Asa Gray -- Rene Just Hauy -- Hermann von Helmholtz -- Joseph Henry -- William Herschel -- Joseph Dalton Hooker -- Thomas Henry Huxley -- Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) --Samuel Pierpont Langley -- Pierre Simon de Laplace -- Adrien Marie Legendre -- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig -- Hans Christian Oersted -- Louis Pasteur -- Jules Henri Poincare -- Lambert Adolphe Quetelet -- William Ramsay -- Henry Augustus Rowland -- Alessandro Volta.
Subject Scientists -- Biography.
Science -- History -- 19th century.
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