Oxford Portraits in Science

Oxford Portraits in Science is a collection of biographies of famous scientists for young adults edited by the Harvard University astronomer Owen Gingerich.[1] Each book portrays the life and personality of an eminent scientist, and the thought processes by which they made their discoveries.

The series is notable as an example of the Sobel effect - an interest in popular accounts of scientific history and biography, stimulated by the success of the book Longitude written by journalist Dava Sobel. Some works in this series have also been written by science journalists as well as scientists and science historians.[2]

Works

Title Date: Author: ISBN
Alexander Graham Bell: Making Connections 1996 Naomi Pasachoff 9780195099089
Charles Babbage and the Engines of Perfection 1999 Bruce Collier 9780195089974
Charles Darwin and the Evolution of Revolution 1996 Rebecca Stefoff 9780195089967
Enrico Fermi and the Revolutions of Modern Physics 1999 Dan Cooper 9780195117622
Ernest Rutherford and the Explosion of Atoms 2003 John L. Heilbron 9780195123784
Galileo Galilei: First Physicist 1999 James MacLachlan 9780195093421
Gregor Mendel 9780195122268
Isaac Newton 9780195092240
Ivan Pavlov 9780195105148
Johannes Kepler 9780195116809
Linus Pauling and the Chemistry of Life 1998 Tom Hager 9780195108538
Louis Pasteur and the Hidden World of Microbes 2001 Louise E. Robbins 9780195122275
Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in America 1999 Joan Mark 9780195116793
Marie Curie and the Science of Radioactivity 1997 Naomi Pasachoff 9780195120110
Michael Faraday: Physics and Faith 2001 Colin A. Russell 9780195117639
Nicolaus Copernicus 9780195161731
William Harvey and the Mechanics of the Heart 9780195120493

References

  1. "Media review", The Chemical Educator 11 (3), 2006
  2. Paola Govoni (March 2005), "Historians of science and the "Sobel Effect"" (PDF), Journal of Science Communication
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