Enslow Publishers.Enslow Publishers PO Box 398, Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922 1-800-398-2504 www.enslow.com "Nobel Prize-Winning Scientists" is a six volume series of biographies showcasing notable men and women whose professional achievements in their chosen fields won them a Nobel Prize Nobel Prize, award given for outstanding achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, peace, or literature. The awards were established by the will of Alfred Nobel, who left a fund to provide annual prizes in the five areas listed above. . Written specifically for young readers in grades 6 to 8, each one hundred page title provides personal background information as well as hands-on activities and experiments to bring that scientists work to life. With a list price of $26.60 and a discounted cover price for schools and libraries of $19.95), each title features illustrations with black-and-white photography, line drawings, and diagrams, as well as a chronology, chapter notes, bibliography for further reading, thematically appropriate Internet resources, and an index. This highly recommended series includes Albert Einstein: The Giant Of 20th Century Science (0766021-858); Enrico Fermi Noun 1. Enrico Fermi - Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954) Fermi : Trailblazer In Nuclear Physics (0766021777); Linus Pauling: Advancing Science, Advocating Peace (0766021300); Guglielmo Marconi: Inventor Of Radio And Wireless Communication (0766022803); James Watson: Solving The Mystery Of DNA DNA: see nucleic acid. DNA or deoxyribonucleic acid One of two types of nucleic acid (the other is RNA); a complex organic compound found in all living cells and many viruses. It is the chemical substance of genes. (0766-022587); and Marie Curie Curie (kürē`), family of French scientists. Pierre Curie, 1859–1906, scientist, and his wife, Marie Sklodowska Curie, 1867–1934, chemist and physicist, b. : Pioneer On The Frontier On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Two Acts, by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, was the third and last play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, first published in 1938. Of Radioactivity (0766024-407). |
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