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From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age. One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical...

Sie sind ins All geflogen, haben den Erdball umsegelt und die höchsten Gipfel bestiegen. In allen Ländern, zu allen Zeiten gab es Frauen, die mutige Vorreiter waren, neugierige Entdeckerinnen, kluge Forscherinnen und kreative Genies. Als passionierte Aktivistinnen protestierten und kämpften sie gegen Ungerechtigkeit, als Wissenschaftlerinnen erforschten sie unbekannte Pflanzen und gefährliche Tiere. Dieses Hörbuch versammelt 100 Geschichten über beeindruckende Frauen, die jedem Mädchen Mut machen, an seine Träume zu glauben.

Break out the TV dinners! From the author who gave us Cod, Salt, and other informative bestsellers, the first biography of Clarence Birdseye, the eccentric genius inventor whose fast-freezing process revolutionized the food industry and American agriculture...

In 1961, Wally Funk was among the Mercury 13, the first group of American pilots to pass the ‘Women in Space’ programme. Wally sailed through a series of rigorous physical and mental tests, her scores beating many of the male candidates, including those of John Glenn, the first American in orbit. But just one week before she was due to enter the final phase of training, the programme was abruptly cancelled. A combination of politics and prejudice meant that none of the women ever flew into space.

In this one-of-a-kind memoir, Jack Clemons - a former lead engineer in support of NASA - takes listeners behind the scenes and into the inner workings of the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs during their most exciting years. Discover the people, the events, and the risks involved in one of the most important parts of space missions: bringing the astronauts back home to Earth. Clemons joined Project Apollo in 1968, a young engineer inspired by science fiction and electrified by John F. Kennedy's challenge to the nation to put a man on the moon.

In How the Laser Happened, Nobel laureate Charles Townes provides a highly personal look at some of the leading events in 20th-century physics. This lively memoir, packed with firsthand accounts and historical anecdotes, is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history of science and an inspiring example for students considering scientific careers.

Alan Turing can be regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the war of 1939-45, Turing was also the father of the modern computer. Today, all who 'click-to-open' are familiar with the impact of Turing's ideas. Here, B. Jack Copeland provides an account of Turing's life and work, exploring the key elements of his life-story in tandem with his leading ideas and contributions.

Die US–amerikanische Informatikerin und Wirtschaftsmanagerin ist seit Anfang 2012 Vorstandsvorsitzende von IBM. Die einzigartigen Biografien laden dazu ein, sich mit der Geschichte der Frauen zu befassen, die den Mut hatten, ihren Traum zu verwirklichen und schließlich ihr Ziel erreichten, die Erste zu sein!

Sin dudas, el iniciador de la indagación racional sobre el universo, considerado el primer filósofo de la historia de la filosofía occidental, y el fundador de la escuela jónica de filosofía, según el testimonio de Aristóteles. Primero y más famoso de los Siete Sabios de Grecia (el sabio astrónomo), habría tenido como discípulo y protegido, según la tradición, a Pitágoras.

Gran físico italiano, es famoso principalmente por haber desarrollado la pila eléctrica en 1800, un invento que asombró al mundo entero. Hoy, en mérito a su labor, la unidad de fuerza electromotriz del Sistema Internacional de Unidades lleva el nombre de voltio en su honor desde el año 1881, y desde 1964 la UAI decidió en su honor llamarle Volta a un astroblema lunar.

Una figura determinante en la etapa republicana y contemporánea del Perú. Autor de la monumental Historia de la República del Perú, obra cumbre de la historiografía peruana, fue además un fino crítico y estudioso de la literatura de su país, maestro y educador de varias generaciones, catedrático y profesor.

El pionero del espacio. Paulet, considerado el padre de la cohetería moderna, fue un ingeniero y estadista peruano que inventó el motor impulsado con combustible líquido (1895) y el primer sistema moderno de propulsión de cohetes (1900). Sus avances en la astronáutica permitieron a otros científicos seguir el camino que llevaría décadas después, a la carrera especial.

Figura clave en la revolución científica medieval, notable astrónomo y matemático alemán; y hombre fundamentalmente conocido por sus leyes sobre el movimiento de los planetas sobre su órbita alrededor del sol, Kepler figura con nombre propio en el Olimpo de la historia científica.

Una de las figuras de la Antigüedad más importantes no sólo de Grecia, sino de toda la cultura occidental. Gran filósofo y matemático griego, es famoso sobre todo por el Teorema de Pitágoras, y sus libros posteriores, donde impulsaba la búsqueda de los números como factor de explicación del universo, estudiándolos y clasificándolos.

Filósofo político y revolucionario francés, y, junto con Bakunin y Kropotkin uno de los padres del pensamiento anarquista, es considerado uno de los economistas más notables de todos los tiempos y autor de la primera tendencia económica conocida, el mutualismo.

Naturalist Joe Hutto’s latest adventures in wildlife observation take him to Wyoming’s Wind River Mountains. Hutto is living in a tent at 12,000 feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant—and human needs can become a matter of life and death—to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep.

Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist. He is widely regarded as a war hero grossly mistreated by his unappreciative country, and it has become hard to disentangle the real man from the story. It is easy to cast him as a misfit, the stereotypical professor.

One of the most elusive and controversial figures in NASA's history, George W. S. Abbey was called "the Dark Lord", "the Godfather", and "UNO" (unidentified NASA official) by those within NASA. Yet Abbey had more influence on human spaceflight than almost anyone in history. From young pilot and wannabe astronaut to engineer, bureaucrat, and finally director of the Johnson Space Center, Abbey's story has never been fully told - until now. The Astronaut Maker takes listeners inside NASA to learn the real story of how Abbey rose to power and wielded it out of the spotlight.

In questo ritratto di Edison come imprenditore e della sua azienda vedremo i momenti salienti della compagnia, gli alti e i bassi, attraverso aneddoti e citazioni. Cercheremo di capire come ha fatto un uomo dalle umili origini e con una formazione superficiale a fondare e dirigere uno dei più grandi imperi industriali a cavallo del XIX e XX secolo e diventare un esempio per ogni manager, anche in epoca moderna. Cercheremo, insomma, di capire il segreto del suo successo.

Il premio Nobel rappresenta un insieme di premi internazionali annuali assegnati in una serie di categorie da istituzioni svedesi e norvegesi in riconoscimento di progressi accademici, culturali o scientifici. Il Nobel costituisce un prestigiosissimo premio, ma nel corso della sua lunga storia iniziata nel 1901 non sono cerco mancate le polemiche, le critiche e alcuni celebri rifiuti da parte dei premiati.