Biography of Scientists

A first-hand account of the race against Linus Pauling to find DNA's structure.

Edison's whole inventive career, set in its era and drawn from his archive.

Edison's life drawn from his papers, unsparing about his finances.

Stories of a physicist's first marriage and his inquiry into the Challenger disaster.

Von Neumann, game theory and the prisoner's dilemma in nuclear strategy.

Edison as both myth and man, drawn from family papers and company archives.

Jennifer Doudna, co-developer of CRISPR gene editing, and what followed it.

J.C.R. Licklider's vision of computers that serve individuals, and how it came true.

Fischer Black's life and ideas, from option pricing on, that shaped modern finance.

Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor and the founding of Intel.

Francis Crick's life, from a lacklustre education to discovering DNA's structure.

Einstein's life and science, from the Bern patent office to relativity.

The life of Claude Shannon, whose information theory underlies the digital age.

Leonardo's life read through his notebooks, where art and science were one pursuit.

Thomas Edison's life, told in reverse chronological order.

The search for the periodic table; reasoning from the elements upward

The current war: Edison against Westinghouse and Tesla.

Shockley and the accidental seeding of Silicon Valley.

Insider account of the private race to sequence the human genome

Edison as the first manufactured celebrity.

Edison's laboratory as a business, with pictures from his archive.

The life of Intel founder Gordon Moore and the forecast named after him.

The inventor's own account of his life and work, the main source for his biographers.

A physicist's stories, from fixing radios as a boy to Los Alamos and beyond.

Profiles of 15 leading computer scientists, eight of them Turing Award winners.

Riemann's 1859 hypothesis on prime numbers, unsolved for 150 years.

Two maverick scientists, Delbrück and Gamow, who helped start genomics and cosmology.

A scientific biography of Feynman, pairing his turbulent life with clear physics.