The Faber Book of Science

by John Carey

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  Index of Names

  Abse, Dannie 1, 2

  Abse, Dr Wilfred 1

  Agricola, Georgius 1

  Aitken, Professor A.C. 1

  Akeley, Carl 1

  Albert, Prince Consort 1

  Alcman 1

  Aldrin, Buzz 1, 2

  Allbutt, Dr Henry Arthur 1

  Allison, Professor Philip 1

  Amis, Martin 1

  Amoureux, M., fils 1

  Anderson, Herbert 1

  Antiochus IV Epiphanes 1

  Aristotle 1

  Armstrong, Neil 1

  Arnauld, Emperor 1

  Asimov, Isaac 1, 2, 3

  Atkins, Peter W. 1, 2

  Auden, W.H. 1, 2

  Avery, Oswald 1, 2

  Avogadro, Amedeo 1

  Bacon, Francis 1, 2, 3

  Badovere, Jacques 1

  Banks, Joseph 1

  Baraduc, Dr 1

  Barbaro, Daniel 1

  Barbellion, W.N.P. (pseudonym of Bruce Frederick Cummings) 1

  Barth, Karl 1

  Barton, Otis 1

  Bartual (neurologist) 1

  Beadle, George 1

  Beaumont, William 1

  Becquerel, Professor Henri 1, 2, 3

  Beebe, William 1, 2

  Bell, Alexander Graham 1

  Bémont, G. 1

  Benedict, Ruth 1

  Bergson, Henri 1

  Beringer, Professor Johann 1

  Berlioz, Hector 1

  Bernal, Professor Desmond 1, 2

  Bingley, William 1

  Bird, Alfred 1, 2

  Bird, Sir Alfred, Bt 1

  Bird, Sir Robert, Bt 1

  Blake, William 1

  Bodanis, David 1, 2

  Bohr, Niels 1, 2, 3, 4

  Bolton, Henry C. 1

  Bolton, Lyndon 1, 2

  Boorstin, Dr Daniel J. 1

  Born, Max 1

  Boyle, Robert 1, 2, 3

  Bragg, Sir William Lawrence 1, 2, 3

  Brandt, Georg 1

  Bridgman, Professor P.W. 1

  Bridseman, John, Bishop of Chester 1

  Brinkley, W.C. 1

  Brown, Robert 1

  Browning, Robert 1

  Buchner, Edouard 1

  Buffon, George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de 1, 2

  Buller, Arthur 1

  Bülow, Hans von 1

  Bunsen, Robert 1, 2

  Bunyan, John 1

  Burbidge, Geoffrey 1

  Burbidge, Margaret 1

  Burke, William 1

  Burnet, Sir Frank Macfarlane 1

  Byron, John 1

  Cajal see Ramón y Cajal

  Calder, Nigel 1

  Callisthenes 1

  Calvino, Italo 1

  Cannizarro, Stanislao 1

  Cannon, Professor W.B. 1

  Carlyle, Thomas 1

  Caroline, Princess 1

  Carroll, Lewis 1

  Carson, Rachel 1

  Cavendish, Henry 1

  Chain, Dr Ernst Boris 1, 2, 3

  Chancourtois, Alexandre de 1

  Chargaff, Erwin 1

  Charles I, King of England 1

  Charles II, King of England 1

  Cheap, Captain 1

  Clarke, Arthur C. 1, 2

  Clausius, Rudolf 1

  Coga, Arthur 1, 2

  Coke, Sir John 1

  Coleridge, Samuel Taylor 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Columbus, Christopher 1

  Compton, Professor Arthur H. 1, 2

  Connor, Steve 1

  Conrad, Joseph 1

  Cook, Captain James 1

  Cooke, J.P. 1

  Copernicus, Nicolaus 1, 2

  Coxe, Thomas 1

  Creeley, Robert 1

  Crichton Browne, Dr J. 1

  Crick, Francis 1, 2, 3

  Crookes, Sir William 1

  Crowfoot, Dr J.W. 1

  Cummings, Bruce Frederick (as W.N.P. Barbellion) 1, 2

  Curie, Eve 1

  Curie, Marie 1, 2

  Curie, Pierre 1, 2

  Czermak, Professor 1

  Daguerre, Louis 1, 2

  Dam, H.J.W. 1, 2

  Dampier, William 1

  Daniels, J.T. 1, 2

  Darwin, Charles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17

  Darwin, Erasmus 1

  Darwin, Sir George 1

  Davies, Professor Paul 1, 2

  Davy, Sir Humphry 1

  Dawkins, Richard 1, 2, 3, 4

  de Broglie, Maurice, 6th Due 1

  Deiters, Otto 1

  Denis, Jean 1

  Denning, Richard 1

  Denny, Alfred 1

  Descartes, René 1

  Dicconson, Ffrances 1

  Dickens, Charles 1, 2

  Dirac, Paul 1, 2

  Docters van Leeuwen, W.M. 1

  Donley, Carl 1

  Donne, John 1, 2, 3, 4

  Dough, W.S. 1

  Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan 1, 2

  Drake, Sir Francis 1

  Drury, E.G. 1

  Dryden, John 1

  Du Chaillu, Paul 1

  Dufour, Leon 1, 2

  Duncan, Robert 1

  Durrell, Lawrence 1

  Dyson, Freeman 1, 2

  Eastman, George 1

  Eddington, A.S. 1, 2, 3

  Edison, Thomas Alva 1, 2

  Einstein, Albert 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

  Eliot, George 1

  Ellsberg, Commander 1

  Emlen, Dr J.T. 1

  Empson, William 1

  Engels, Friedrich 1

  Ennius 1

  Erichsen, Sir John 1

  Etheridge, A.D. 1

  Evelyn, John 1

  Fabre, Jean Henri 1

  Fabre, Jules 1

  Faraday, Michael 1

  Faulkner, William 1

  Fermi, Enrico 1, 2

  Fermi, Laura 1

  Feynman, Richard 1, 2, 3, 4

  Fisher, R.A. 1, 2, 3

  Flaubert, Gustave 1, 2

  Fleming, Alexander 1, 2, 3

  Florey, Howard 1, 2

  Florey, Dr Mary 1

  Foote, Dr Edward B. 1

  Foster, Professor 1

  Fourier, Jean Baptiste, Baron de 1, 2

  Fowler, William 1

  Fox, Marshall 1

  Franklin, Benjamin 1, 2

  Franklin, Rosalind 1

  Frederick VII, King of Denmark 1

  Freud, Sigmund 1, 2

  Friedman, Alan 1

  Frisch, Otto 1, 2

  Galen 1

  Galileo Galilei 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

  Gamow, George 1

  Gardner, Martin 1, 2

  Gaudin, Marc Antonine 1

  Gaudoin (of Dijon) 1

  Gell-Mann, Murray 1

  Gerlach, Joseph von 1

  Gilbert de Frankenau 1

  Golding, William 1

  Goldstein, Kurt 1

  Golgi, Camillo 1

  Gosse, Edmund 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Gosse, Philip Henry 1

  Gould, Stephen Jay 1, 2

  Greenewalt, Crawford H. 1, 2

  Greenlaw, Lavinia 1, 2

  Gregory, Richard 1

  Gris, Juan 1

  Groves, General Leslie R. 1

  Gunn, Rev. 1

  Gustafson, Elton 1

  Guthrie, E.R. 1

  Hahn, Otto 1

  Halban, H. von 1

  Haldane, J.B.S. 1, 2, 3, 4

  Haldane, J.S. 1, 2

  Halley, Edmond 1

  Halsted, William Stewart 1

  Hardy, G.H. 1

  Hare, William 1

  Hargreaves, Jennet 1, 2, 3

  Harvey, William 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Hatchett, C. 1

  Hawkes, Jacquetta 1

  Hawking, Stephen 1, 2

 
Hazlitt, William 1

  Hegner, Robert Wilhelm 1

  Heisenberg, Werner 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

  Herschel, Sir John 1

  Herschel, William 1

  Hertz, Heinrich 1

  Heseler, Baldasar 1

  Hesiod 1, 2

  Hillebrand, William 1, 2

  Hodgkin, Professor Dorothy Crowfoot 1

  Hodgkin, Thomas 1

  Hofmann, Craft Ernst 1

  Holldobler, Bert 1

  Hollick, Frederick 1

  Hollister, Miss (of ocean diving team) 1, 2

  Holub, Miroslav 1, 2

  Honegger, Arthur 1

  Hooke, Robert 1

  Hoover, Herbert 1

  Horton, G.P. 1

  Hotchkiss, Rollin 1

  Houdini, Harry (Erich Weiss) 1

  Howard, L.O. 1

  Hoyle, Fred 1

  Hubble, Edwin 1

  Hudson, WH. 1

  Hughes, Ted 1

  Hugo, Victor 1

  Hutchins, President (of University of Chicago) 1

  Huxley, Aldous 1, 2

  Huxley, Thomas Henry 1, 2

  Huygens, Christiaan 1

  Innocent VIII, Pope 1

  Jackson, Hughlings 1

  Jaffe, Bernard 1

  James, Henry 1

  James I, King of England 1

  James, William 1

  Jehl, Francis 1, 2

  Jenkin, Fleeming 1, 2, 3

  Jenner, Edward 1

  Johannsen, Wilhelm 1

  Johnson, Margaret 1, 2

  Johnson, Dr Samuel 1

  Joliot-Curie, Jean Frédéric 1

  Jones, Steve 1

  Jordan, Pascual 1

  Joseph, Dr A.F. 1

  Joshua 1

  Joyce, James 1, 2, 3

  Kammerer, Paul 1

  Kayser, H. G. 1

  Keats, John 1, 2

  Kekulé von Stradonitz, Friedrich August 1

  Keller, Evelyn Fox 1

  Keller, Ferdinand 1

  Kelvin, William Thomson, lst Baron 1, 2

  Keynes, Geoffrey 1

  Keyser, Konrad 1

  King, Sir Edmund 1, 2

  Kingsley, Charles 1

  Kipling, Rudyard 1

  Kirby, Rev. Dr 1

  Kirchhof, Gustav 1, 2

  Kirkup, James 1

  Knowlton, Dr Charles 1

  Koch, Robert 1

  Kopp, Hermann 1

  Korniloff, Maria 1

  Kruesi, John 1

  Krutch, Joseph Wood 1

  Kubrick, Stanley 1

  Kuhn, Thomas S. 1

  Kurti, Professor Nicholas 1

  Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste 1, 2

  Langstaff, Dr 1

  Laplace, Pierre Simon de 1, 2

  Larkin, Philip 1

  Larrissy, Edward 1

  Laurence, William 1

  Laveran, Alphonse 1

  Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent 1, 2, 3, 4

  Leakey, Richard 1

  Lecoq de Boisbaudran, Paul 1

  Lederberg, Joshua 1

  Leeuwenhoek, Antony van 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  Leibnitz, Gottfried Wilhelm 1

  Leighton, Ralph 1

  Lemaitre, A.G.E. 1

  Leonardo da Vinci 1

  Levene, Phoebus 1

  Levi, Primo 1

  Lewis, Professor W.A. 1

  Linnaeus, Carl 1

  Lippershey, Hans 1

  Loir, Adrien 1

  Lorenz, Edward 1

  Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III, Emperor of France) 1

  Louis Philippe, King of France 1

  Lovelock, J.E. 1

  Lower, Dr 1

  Lugwig, Emil 1

  Luther, Martin 1

  Lyell, Charles 1, 2, 3

  Lysenko, Trofim 1, 2

  McCarty, Maclyn 1, 2

  McClintock, Barbara 1

  MacDiarmid, Hugh (Christopher Murray Grieve) 1

  MacDonald, George 1

  Mackenzie, J.U. 1

  McLaren, Angus 1

  MacLeod, Colin 1, 2

  Macleod, Fiona (pseudonym of William Sharp) 1

  Maeterlinck, Maurice 1

  Malthus, Thomas 1, 2, 3

  Mandelbrot, Benoit 1, 2

  Mann, Thomas 1

  Manning, Mrs 1

  Mansfield, Katherine 1

  Manson, Sir Patrick 1, 2

  Martini, Francesco di Giorgio 1

  Marvell, Andrew 1

  Marx, Jenny 1

  Masefield, John 1

  Mason, Miss (PNEU founder) 1

  Matthews, Drum 1, 2

  Maximilian, Emperor 1

  Maxwell, James Clerk 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

  May, Robert 1

  Mayr, Ernst 1

  Medawar, Sir Peter 1, 2, 3, 4

  Medici, Grand Duke, Cosimi II de’ 1

  Meitner, Lise 1, 2

  Meloney, Mrs William 1

  Mendel, Gregor Johann 1, 2, 3

  Mendeléeff (Mendeleyev), Dmitri Ivanovitch 1, 2

  Mensinga, W.P.J. 1

  Meyer, Lothar 1

  Miall, Louis Compton 1

  Miller, Hugh 1

  Millet, Captain (of ocean diving team) 1

  Milton, John 1, 2, 3

  Mirsky, Alfred 1

  Mitford, Captain B.E. (‘Mitty’) 1

  Moissan, Henri 1

  Montagu, Henry, Earl of Manchester 1

  Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley 1

  Monticelli, Marquis of 1

  Moore, B.R. 1

  Moore, Henry 1

  Moore, Johnny 1, 2

  Moreau, Gustave 1

  Morrell, Lady Ottoline 1

  Morse, Samuel F.B. 1

  Mosely, Henry 1

  Moynihan, Berkeley George 1

  Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus 1

  Mucius 1

  Muir, Pattison 1

  Müller, Hugo 1

  Muybridge, Eadward 1

  Nabokov, Vladimir 1

  Neimes, Sarah 1

  Newlands, John A.R. 1

  Newton, Sir Isaac 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14

  Niepce, Nicéphore 1

  Nightingale, Florence 1, 2

  Nilson, Lars F. 1

  Nims, John Frederick 1, 2

  Nixon, Richard 1

  Nootnangle, Charles 1, 2

  Noyes, Alfred 1

  Noyon, Bishop of 1

  Officer, Charles 1

  Oldenburg, Henry 1

  Olsen (owner of Meilgaard estate) 1

  Olson, Charles 1

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert 1

  Organ, Brian 1

  Ortega y Gasset, José 1

  Orwell, George 1

  Osten, Herr von (owner of Clever Hans) 1

  Page, Jake 1

  Paget, Sir James 1

  Paracelsus (Theophrastus von Hohenheim) 1

  Park, Mungo 1

  Pasteur, Louis 1, 2, 3‚ 4, 5

  Paul V, Pope 1

  Pauli, W. 1

  Penaud, Alphonse 1

  Pepys, Samuel 1, 2, 3

  Perkin, William 1

  Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia 1

  Pfungst, Professor O. 1

  Pherecydes 1

  Philip II, King of Spain 1

  Phillips, Adam 1

  Phipps, James 1

  Pimentel, Professor David 1

  Planck, Max 1, 2, 3

  Plato 1

  Poe, Edgar Allan 1

  Poincaré, Henri 1

  Pope, Alexander 1, 2

  Priestley, Joseph 1, 2, 3

  Purchon, R.D. 1

  Ragg, Elizabeth Lavinia (later Bird) 1

  Ramón y Cajal, Santiago 1, 2

  Ramsay, Sir William 1, 2, 3

  Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) 1

  Rayleigh, John W. Strutt, 3rd Baron 1

  Read, Alexander 1

  Regnault, Henri 1

  Rennell, Major 1

  Richards, Alison 1

  Ricketts, Ed 1, 2

  Riedman, Sarah 1

  Robert, Alphonse 1

  R
obinson, Edmund 1

  Roeder, K.D. 1

  Roentgen, Wilhelm Conrad 1

  Rogers, Lambert 1, 2

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. 1, 2

  Rosenfeld, A.H. 1

  Ross, Sir Ronald 1, 2, 3

  Roth, Philip 1

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1

  Ruderman, M.A. 1

  Ruskin, John 1, 2

  Russell, Bertrand 1, 2, 3

  Rutherford, Ernest 1, 2, 3

  Sachs, Alexander 1

  Sacks, Dr Oliver 1

  Sagan, Carl 1, 2

  St Martin, Alexis 1, 2, 3

  Sainte-Beuve, Charles Augustin 1, 2

  Sanger, Fred 1, 2

  Scaliger, Joseph Justus 1

  Schaller, George 1