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5) Astronomy
Publisher
Pangea Digital Pictures
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
We have been beguiled by the heavens above, seeking to divine the meanings in the stars and planets overhead. Where did it all begin? Where will it end? How were the stars formed? Is there anybody else out there, or are we alone? One of the leading astronomers studying those questions is Dr. Sallie Baliunas.
8) Viruses
Series
Publisher
Unapix Consumer Products
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Dr. Robert C. Gallo's conversation with Paul Hoffman, the editor-in-chief of Discover Magazine. Dr. Earle has spent his life at the National Institutes for Health deciphering the puzzles of human viruses. Gallo's work with viruses fueled his interest in AIDS and led to his co-discovery of the HIV virus in 1984.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life of the Frenchman who is considered the founder of modern chemistry and biochemistry, because of his discovery of oxygen and his work on combustion and respiration.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Profiles the life of the eighteenth-century Swedish naturalist whose scientific naming of plants and animals provided an international language of nature.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A biography of the noted French scientist whose discoveries, including a rabies vaccine and the process of pasteurization, had important practical applications in both medicine and industry.
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"A biography of fifteenth-century Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus, who theorized that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe and that all the planets, including the earth, revolved around the sun"--Provided by publisher.