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1. Albert Einstein German-born American physicist and Nobel laureate, best known as the creator of the special and general theories of relativity and for his bold hypothesis concerning the particle nature of light. He is perhaps the most well-known scientist of the 20t...
2. Sir Isaac Newton Isaac Newton, English physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher, considered one of the most important scientists of all time. Newton formulated laws of universal gravitation and motion—laws that explain how objects move on Earth as well...
3. Theoretical Physicist Lisa Randall Lisa Randall is one of the leading young thinkers in particle physics, having become the first tenured woman theoretical physicist at both MIT and Harvard, where she now teaches. Time Magazine named Lisa one of their 100 Most Influential People in 200...
4. Spirituality from the perspective of science books When you hear 'quantum mechanics' you may think 'create your own life'. Books on this page are written to target that kind of misconception. Quantum mechanics DOES NOT prove that we can create our lives just by how we think. Quantum mechanics can be...
5. Nikola Tesla - the man who invented the twentieth century Probably the most creative and prolific scientist of the 20th Century, Nikola Tesla was at the forefront of so many scientific disciplines. Yet due to his  inability to get on with his fellow scientists he was more or less osterised by the scine...
6. Does the moon exist only when someone is looking at it? In the 1950's Einstein asked his young friend Abraham Pais if he really believed that the moon existed only if he looked at it? So why did Einstein ask does the moon exist even when you're not looking at it? Einstein disagreed with some of the most...
7. Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist (physicist, mathematician, astronomer) and philosopher who was a leading figure in science at his time and still is highly respected for his work.
8. Science Books - Lisa Randall's Readings on Physics Lisa Randall is one of the leading young thinkers in particle physics today, having become the first tenured woman theoretical physicist at both MIT and Harvard, where she now teaches. The book editors of Amazon.com have asked her to recommend ten boo...
9. Time Travel Video Showcase Time holds all of us as slaves. What is this mysterious dynamic we call time? Is its passage merely an illusion? Is it possible to travel forward or backward in time? These are all questions that have fascinated mankind for millenia. The Time Travel...