The book covers the lives and work of 17 Irish scientists whose work had a global impact.
The text for the contents page here below gives the names of the scientists covered in the book.
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How Irish Scientists Changed the World
By Sean Duke
Contents
Part One: Maps, Earthquakes, Electricity & Climate
1 When Britannia Ruled: Francis Beaufort
2The Shaking Earth: Robert Mallett
3 Electricity for All: Nicholas Callan
4 The Little Ice Age: Annie Maunder
Part Two: Telegraph, Steamships, Submarines & Space
5 Transatlantic Cable Hero: William Thompson
6 Full Steam Ahead: Charles Parsons
7Submarine Warfare: John Holland
8 Men on the Moon: William Rowan Hamilton
Part Three: Atoms, Radio, Pulsars and Galaxies
9 Atom Splitting – Ernest Walton *
10 The Wireless Wizard – Guglielmo Marconi *
11 Pulsating Pulsars – Jocelyn Bell Burnell
12 Spiral Galaxies – William Parsons
Part Four: Experiments, Evolution, Life & Logic
13 The Experimental Age – Robert Boyle
14 Darwin’s Defender – John Tyndall
15 What is Life? – Erwin Schrodinger *
16 DNA’s Third Man – Maurice Wilkins *
17 It’s only Logical – George Boole
* Indicates Nobel Prize Winner