The Invisibles of Science - Couverture rigide

Klonef, Xavier

Couverture rigide

ISBN 13 : 9798297519510

Editeur : Independently published, 2025

Synopsis

Discover the hidden figures who shaped the history of science — and the world.

The history of science is not just written by those whose names fill the textbooks. Behind some of the most important discoveries in astronomy, biology, geology, and physics are forgotten scientists whose work changed the course of human knowledge — yet whose names were erased, overlooked, or ignored.

The Invisibles of Science brings to life 21 remarkable stories of pioneers, women in science, self-taught researchers, and bold thinkers who challenged the boundaries of knowledge from the margins. Each chapter is a journey into the life of a visionary mind — from the astronomer who measured the stars without her own telescope, to the geologist who mapped the drifting continents with nothing but a pencil and determination.

In these pages you will:

• Meet women scientists who fought prejudice to transform their fields.

• Discover self-taught geniuses who defied academic elitism.

• Explore groundbreaking ideas that were decades ahead of their time.

• Understand how bias and power have shaped the history of science.

More than a collection of biographies, this book is a thought-provoking exploration of how scientific memory is built, whose voices are amplified, and whose are silenced.

If you enjoyed Hidden Figures, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, or The Women of the Moon, you will be inspired, moved, and challenged by The Invisibles of Science.

Because the history of knowledge is not complete without those who made it possible in silence.

INDEX:

PROLOGUE ___7

1. Hypatia of Alexandria – The Flame of Wisdom in Times of Fanaticism
2. Ibn al-Haytham – The Master of Light
3. Nettie Stevens – Chromosomes in the Shadows
4. Lise Meitner – The Overlooked Fission
5. Ignaz Semmelweis – The Martyr of Hygiene
6. Henrietta Swan Leavitt – The Compass of the Galaxies
7. Mary Anning – The Pioneer of Paleontology
8. Rosalind Franklin – The Structure Denied
9. Chien-Shiung Wu – The First Lady of Experimental Physics
10. Vera Rubin – Dark Matter, Clear Recognition
11. Emmy Noether – The Mathematician of Symmetry
12. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin – The Alchemy of the Stars
13. Sophie Germain – The Geometry of Courage
14. Ada Lovelace – The Visionary of Machines
15. Jocelyn Bell Burnell – Pulses from the Cosmos
16. Alfred Wegener – The Visionary of the Continents
17. Mary Somerville – The Forgotten “Queen of Science”
18. Fritz Zwicky – The Overlooked Prophet of Dark Matter
19. Annie Jump Cannon – The Astronomer Who Classified the Stars
20. Alfred Russel Wallace – The Other Father of Evolution
21. Florence Bascom – The Pioneer of Modern Geology

EPILOGUE ___199

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independently published
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798297519510
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 202
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