Biography Today Scientists and Inventors Series

The in-depth biographical profiles are written for readers ages 9 and up and include portraits and other illustrations. The 13 scientists and inventors covered in this volume are Luis W. Alvarez (American physicist and inventor), Hans A. Bethe (German-born American physicist and educator), Gro Harlem Brundtland (Norwegian politican, physician, and environmentalist), Mary S. Calderone (American physician and sex educator), Ioana Dumitriu (prize-winning Romanian math student), Temple Grandin (American animal scientist and inventor), John Langston Gwaltney (American anthropologist and ethnologist), Bernard Harris (American physician and NASA astronaut), Jerome Lemelson (American inventor), Susan Love (American surgeon and breast cancer expert), Ruth Patrick (American ecologist and limnologist), Oliver Sacks (British neurologist and writer), and Richie Stachowski (American student, inventor,and entrepeneur).