Presents lives of influential scientists throughout history and experiments that can be done to demonstrate their work. Profiles of some of history's greatest scientists-- and fun experiments that demonstrate their theories! Janice VanCleave's Scientists Through the Ages profiles the lives and work of more than twenty-five important thinkers in astronomy, biology, chemistry, earth science, and physics. Acknowledgments v Introduction 1(2) PART I. TYPES OF SCIENTISTS 3(24) Astronomers 4(5) Biologists 9(4) Chemists 13(4) Earth Scientists 17(5) Physicists 22(5) PART II. SCIENTISTS 27(84) Alhazen 28(3) Mary Anning 31(4) Archimedes 35(4) Alexander Graham Bell 39(4) Rachel Carson 43(4) Marie and Pierre Curie 47(5) Thomas Alva Edison 52(4) Albert Einstein 56(6) Alexander Fleming 62(4) Benjamin Franklin 66(5) Galileo Galilei 71(6) Caroline and William Herschel 77(4) Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier 81(4) Henrietta Leavitt 85(4) Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 89(4) Maria Mitchell 93(4) Sir Isaac Newton 97(4) Louis Pasteur 101(4) Sir Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) 105(3) Rosalyn Sussman Yalow 108(3) Appendix: Red Cabbage Indicator 111(1) Scientist Timeline 112(1) Glossary 113(6) Index 119