Famous in STEM
The series
Seven books, seven corners of STEM.
Each volume tells the true stories of 20 to 27 people from one field, in short chapters that explain the science in plain words. They can be read in any order.
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Volume 1 · Physics
The Greatest Physicists
26 minds who cracked the laws of the universe
Gravity, electricity, radioactivity, relativity and black holes, told through the people who figured them out.
- Inside
- 26 chapters
- Great for
- Space, energy and how the universe works
- Includes
- Isaac Newton, Nikola Tesla, Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, Daniel Bernoulli, Galileo Galilei and more
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Volume 2 · Mathematics
Mathematical Masterminds
23 minds who found the patterns behind everything
Code-breaking, infinity, prime numbers and flight paths to orbit, told through the people who found the patterns.
- Inside
- 23 chapters
- Great for
- Puzzles, codes and numbers
- Includes
- Carl Friedrich Gauss, Blaise Pascal, Alan Turing, Leonhard Euler, Paul Erdős, Eratosthenes and more
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Volume 3 · Computing and technology
Tech Titans of Silicon Valley
The rebels and coders who built the digital world
The chip, the internet, the web and the companies built on them, told through the rebels and coders who made them.
- Inside
- 25 chapters, 27 people
- Great for
- Coding, gadgets and the internet
- Includes
- Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Mark Zuckerberg, Kevin Mitnick, Linus Torvalds and more
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Volume 4 · Chemistry
Explosive Chemists
24 daring minds who changed what the world is made of
Dynamite, the periodic table, DNA, plastics and Kevlar, told through the chemists who made them.
- Inside
- 24 chapters
- Great for
- Experiments, elements and things that go bang
- Includes
- Alfred Nobel, Antoine Lavoisier, Dmitri Mendeleev, Robert Boyle, Adolf von Baeyer, Fritz Haber and more
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Volume 5 · Biology
Brilliant Biologists
21 explorers who revealed how life works
Evolution, genes, chimpanzees, ants and the double helix, told through the explorers who revealed how life works.
- Inside
- 20 chapters, 21 people
- Great for
- Animals, nature and evolution
- Includes
- Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Jane Goodall, Rachel Carson, Carl Linnaeus, Barbara McClintock and more
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Volume 6 · Medicine
Medical Pioneers
20 healers who beat disease and saved millions
Vaccines, antibiotics, hand-washing, blood banks and heart surgery, told through the healers who fought for them.
- Inside
- 20 chapters
- Great for
- Medicine, the human body and becoming a doctor
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- Alexander Fleming, Edward Jenner, Florence Nightingale, Jonas Salk, Hippocrates, Elizabeth Blackwell and more
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Volume 7 · Engineering
Extraordinary Engineers
20 builders who engineered the modern world
Bridges, towers, tunnels, railways, rockets and the bit, told through the builders who engineered the modern world.
- Inside
- 20 chapters
- Great for
- Building, machines, bridges and rockets
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- Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Gustave Eiffel, James Watt, Fazlur Rahman Khan, Emily Warren Roebling, Wernher von Braun and more
Not sure where to start?
Use the gift guide to match a book to an interest, or browse every person in the series.