The Scientists (book)

The Scientists: An Epic of Discovery (2012), edited by Andrew Robinson, is a collection of 43 biographies of a selection of the greatest scientists of all time. An updated paperback edition of the book entitled The Scientists: Pioneers of Discovery appeared in 2023.

Overview
The book's chapters are contributed by various authors and cover the following scientists (some in pairs) in a number of parts:


 * Universe
 * Nicolaus Copernicus
 * Johannes Kepler
 * Galileo Galilei
 * Isaac Newton
 * Michael Faraday
 * James Clerk Maxwell
 * Albert Einstein
 * Edwin Powell Hubble


 * Earth
 * James Hutton
 * Charles Lyell
 * Alexander von Humboldt
 * Alfred Wegener


 * Molecules and matter
 * Robert Boyle
 * Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier
 * John Dalton
 * Dmitri Mendeleev
 * August Kekulé
 * Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
 * Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman


 * Inside the atom
 * Marie Curie and Pierre Curie
 * Ernest Rutherford
 * Niels Bohr
 * Linus Carl Pauling
 * Enrico Fermi
 * Hideki Yukawa


 * Life
 * Carl Linnaeus
 * Jan IngenHousz
 * Charles Darwin
 * Gregor Mendel
 * Jan Purkinje
 * Santiago Ramón y Cajal
 * Francis Crick and James Watson


 * Body and mind
 * Andreas Vesalius
 * William Harvey
 * Louis Pasteur
 * Francis Galton
 * Sigmund Freud
 * Alan Turing
 * John von Neumann
 * Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey

Translations
The book has been translated into a number of languages other than English:


 * Czech: Vědci, Slovart, 2013.
 * Dutch: De Grote Wetenschappers, Fontaine Uitgevers, 2013.
 * German: Faszination Forschung, Parthas Verlag, 2013.
 * Japanese: 世界の科学者図鑑, Hara Shobo, 2013.
 * Korean: The Great Scientists / 위대한 과학자들, Knowledge Gallery, 2012.
 * Spanish: Los Grandes Científicos, Lunwerg Editores, 2012.
 * Turkish: Bilim Insanlari, Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2013.
 * Vietnamese: Những Nhà Khoa Học, Kim Đồng Publishing House, 2017.

Reviews
The book has been reviewed in a number of publications and online, including:


 * Amazon
 * The Bulletin of The Royal College of Pathologists
 * Choice
 * The Irish Times
 * The Lancet
 * Nature
 * San Francisco Book Review
 * Science News
 * The Scotsman