Vinatha Viswanathan

The book is a quick run through scientists from the early Greeks to those in the twentieth-century as is. From Pythagoras to Har Gobind Khurana, this book is a chronological Who’s Who of the giants in science from the 6th century BCE to just past the mid-twentieth century. Barring a few names, it is likely that you have heard of most of the names either in the news, in text-books or popular science articles on the history of science. The book talks about the greatest accomplishments of these scientists, the challenges they faced and how they fared, in a few pages for each. In 55 chapters it speaks of the contributions of 60 scientists. Each story is well-written and in the easygoing style that author is known for in his popular science articles. Various topics of science are represented in this tale of sciences—astronomy, physics, chemistry and the life sciences.