TY - BOOK AU - Markham,Lois TI - Discoveries that changed science T2 - 20 events SN - 081144936X : AV - Q180.55.D57 M37 1995 U1 - 500 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Austin, TX PB - Raintree/Steck Vaughn KW - Discoveries in science KW - History KW - Juvenile literature KW - Science KW - Inventions KW - sears KW - Medicine KW - Research N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 46), glossary, and index; Copernican theory -- Blood circulation -- Lenses that magnify -- The theory of gravity -- Electricity -- The first medical use of ether -- Germ theory -- Bessemer process -- The theory of evolution -- Genetics -- Periodic table -- Quantum theory -- Radioactivity -- Theory of relativity -- Vitamins -- Insulin -- Penecillin -- DNA -- Polio vaccine -- Plate tectonics; Appraisal-Science Books for Young People; Science Books & Films (A.A.A.S.); 7.3; Follett Library Resources; 5-8; Follett Library Resources N2 - Introduces discoveries that changed science by such notable men and women as Copernicus, William Harvey, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Henry Bessemer, Charles Darwin, Gregor Mendel, Dmitri Mendeleyev, Max Planck, Madame Curie, Albert Einstein, Dorothy Hodgkin, and others. Illustrated with photographs ER -