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Boerst, William J.

Summary: Presents the life and work of the famous seventeenth-century British physicist Sir Isaac Newton.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds Pub. 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEW

Gigliotti, Jim

Summary: "Learn more about the renowned British scientist, professor, and author who spent his entire career trying to answer the question: "Where did the universe come from?" Stephen Hawking was born exactly three hundred years after the death of the scientist Galileo, so maybe it was written in the stars that he would become a famous scientist in his own right. Although he was diagnosed with a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAW

Russell, Colin Archibald.

Summary: A biography of the nineteenth-century English scientist whose religious beliefs guided his exploration of electricity and magnetism.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 537.09 RUS

Losure, Mary.

Summary: Before Isaac Newton became the father of physics, an accomplished mathematician, or a leader of the scientific revolution, he was a boy living in an apothecary's house, observing and experimenting, recording his observations of the world in a tiny notebook. As a young genius living in a time before science as we know it existed, Isaac studied the few books he could get his hands on, built...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEW

Meltzer, Brad

Summary: "An illustrated biography of the astrophysicist Stephen Hawking"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rocky Pond Books

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAW

Pascal, Janet B

Summary: Highlights the life and career of the genius physicist, discussing his childhood years, his time at Cambridge, and his landmark book, known as the "Principia."

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEW

Sakurai, Gail.

Summary: A brief biography of the British theoretical physicist who is well-known for his advances in the study of cosmology, accomplished despite being physically limited by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Gehrig's disease.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 1996

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HAWKING SAK

Krull, Kathleen.

Summary: Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2006

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NEW

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