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Portraits of great American scientists

In this era of genetic engineering, nanotechnology, cell phones, computers, and the Internet, science literacy becomes an essential element of survival for both individuals and society as a whole. This unique work makes a positive contribution to that end through the biographies of fifteen American scientists, men and women from paleontology to artificial intelligence, thoroughly researched and written by high school students from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

Print Book, English, 2001
Prometheus Books, Amherst, N.Y., 2001