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Katherine Johnson / by Wilkins, Ebony.; Ager, Charlotte.;
Counting on Katherine -- Asking questions -- Separate and unequal -- Breaking barriers -- A new journey -- Woman at work -- Pushing for change -- The space race -- Apollo 11 -- "One giant leap" -- An incredible career -- Awards and acclaim.Examines the life of mathematician Katherine Johnson, from her early education and career before working for NASA to her integral role in the space program.LSC
Subjects: Johnson, Katherine G.; United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration; African American women mathematicians; Women mathematicians; African American women physicists; Women physicists;
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Genius. [videorecording] / by Colley, Samantha,1979-actor.; Flynn, Johnny,actor.; McElhatton, Michael,1963-actor.; Rush, Geoffrey,1951-actor.; Grazer, Brian,1953-television producer.; Howard, Ron,1954-television producer.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Ltd.,publisher.; Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation,production company.; National Geographic Channel (Television station : Washington, D.C.),production company.;
Geoffrey Rush, Michael McElhatton, Johnny Flynn, Samantha Colley.The show offers an extraordinary look into the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein. Beyond his groundbreaking theories of relativity, witness Einstein's struggles to be a good husband and father, and a man of principle during a time of global unrest. A ten-episode journey of discovery guided by Einstein's wit, wisdom and insatiable thirst for knowledge.Canadian Home Video Rating: 14A.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.
Subjects: Historical television programs.; Biographical television programs.; Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Physicists;
For private home use only.
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My brief history [sound recording] / by Hawking, Stephen,1942-; Brenher, Matthew.;
Read by Matthew Brenher.Recounts Stephen Hawking's improbable journey, from his postwar London boyhood to his years of international acclaim and celebrity. Writing with characteristic humility and humor, Hawking opens up about the challenges that confronted him following his diagnosis of ALS at age 21. Tracing his progress as a thinker, he explains how the prospect of an early death urged him onward through numerous intellectual breakthroughs, and talks about the genesis of his masterpiece A Brief History of Time.
Subjects: Hawking, Stephen, 1942-; Audiobooks.; Black holes (Astronomy); Cosmology.; Physicists;
© p2013., Random House Audio : Books on Tape,
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My brief history / by Hawking, S. W.(Stephen W.),author.;
Subjects: Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.); Black holes (Astronomy); Cosmology.; Physicists;
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Einstein : a hundred years of relativity / by Robinson, Andrew; Anderson, P. W.(Philip W.),1923-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-248) and index.
Subjects: Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Physicists; General relativity (Physics); Physics;
© 2005., Harry N. Abrams,
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Pendulum : Léon Foucault and the triumph of science / by Aczel, Amir D.;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-264) and index.
Subjects: Foucault, Léon, 1819-1868.; Physicists; Foucault's pendulum.; Physics; Science;
© 2003., Simon & Schuster,
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Love, theoretically / by Hazelwood, Ali,author.;
"Rival physicists collide in a vortex of academic feuds and fake dating shenanigans in this delightfully STEMinist romcom from the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis and Love on the Brain. The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she's an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it's a pretty sweet gig-until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor's career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job. Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but ... those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she's with him? Will falling into an experimentalist's orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?"--
Subjects: Romance fiction.; Novels.; College teachers; Man-woman relationships; Physicists; Women college teachers;
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The other Einstein : a novel / by Benedict, Marie,author.;
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955; Einstein-Marić, Mileva, 1875-1948; Women physicists;
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Departure 37 : a novel / by Carson, Scott,1982-author.;
"Horror meets coming-of-age in this thrilling novel in which forgotten Cold War mysteries make a terrifying reappearance, from a writer Stephen King has called "a master.""--
Subjects: Horror fiction.; Novels.; Air pilots; Cold War; Nuclear weapons; Physicists; Teenage girls;
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The elements of Marie Curie : how the glow of radium lit a path for women in science / by Sobel, Dava,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."'Even now, nearly a century after her death, Marie Curie remains the only female scientist most people can name,' writes Dava Sobel at the opening of her shining portrait of the sole Nobel laureate decorated in two separate fields of science -- Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre and Chemistry by herself in 1911. And yet, Sobel makes clear, as brilliant and creative as she was in the laboratory, Marie Curie was equally passionate outside it. Grieving Pierre's untimely death in 1906, she took his place as professor of physics at the Sorbonne; devotedly raised two brilliant daughters; drove a van she outfitted with x-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I; befriended Albert Einstein and other luminaries of twentieth-century physics; won support from two U.S. presidents; and inspired generations of young women the world over to pursue science as a way of life ... [Dava Sobel] approaches Marie Curie from a unique angle, narrating her remarkable life of discovery and fame alongside the women who became her legacy -- from France's Marguerite Perey, who discovered the element francium, and Norway's Ellen Gleditsch, to Mme. Curie's elder daughter, Irène, winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. For decades the only woman in the room at international scientific gatherings that probed new theories about the interior of the atom, Marie Curie traveled far and wide, despite constant illness, to share the secrets of radioactivity, a term she coined. Her two triumphant tours of the United States won her admirers for her modesty even as she was mobbed at every stop; her daughters, in Ève's later recollection, 'discovered all at once what the retiring woman with whom they had always lived meant to the world.'"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Curie, Marie, 1867-1934.; Curie, Marie, 1867-1934; Chemical elements; Chemists; Mentoring in science; Physicists; Women chemists; Women physicists;
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