A Biographical Encyclopedia of Scientists and Inventors in American Film and TV Since 1930

by Van Riper, A. Bowdoin

• ISBN13: 9780810881280
• ISBN10: 0810881284
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-15
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

In-this first in-depth study of how scientists and inventors have been portrayed on screen, A. Bowdoin Van Riper catalogs nearly 300 separate performances and includes essays on more than 80 scientists, inventors, engineers, and medical researchers. These essays cover well-known figures such as Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, and Marie Curie as well as less familiar individuals such as astronomer Maria Mitchell, dynamite inventor Alfred Nobel, and maverick automobile designer Preston Tucker.

Author Biography

A. Bowdoin Van Riper is a historian whose research focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of modern science and technology. He is the author or editor of five books, including Science in Popular Culture (2002) and Rockets and Missiles: The Life Story of a Technology (2007).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. viii
Antiquity through the Enlightenment
Hippocrates of Kos	p. 3
Aristotle	p. 5
Archimedes	p. 8
Gutenberg, Johan	p. 10
Da Vinci, Leonardo	p. 12
Copernicus, Nicholas	p. 17
Bacon, Francis	p. 19
Galileo	p. 21
Digby, Kenelm	p. 26
Newton, Isaac	p. 28
Halley, Edmond	p. 34
Harrison, John	p. 36
Franklin, Benjamin	p. 40
The Nineteenth Century
Fulton, Robert	p. 47
Whitney, Eli	p. 51
Oersted, Hans Christian	p. 54
Audubon, John James	p. 56
Babbage, Charles	p. 59
Cooper, Peter	p. 61
Morse, Samuel E B.	p. 63
Bowie, James	p. 65
Ericsson, John	p. 67
De Lesseps, Ferdinand	p. 71
Darwin, Charles	p. 75
Lovelace, Augusta Ada Byron King, Countess of	p. 80
Mitchell, Maria	p. 83
Pasteur, Louis	p. 86
Kelvin, William Thomson, Lord	p. 91
Nobel, Alfred	p. 96
Crapper, Thomas	p. 99
Langley, Samuel P.	p. 101
Powell, John Wesley	p. 103
Newcomb, Simon	p. 108
Holland, John Philip	p. 110
Bell, Alexander Graham	p. 112
Edison, Thomas	p. 123
Ehrlich, Paul	p. 135
The Twentieth Century to 1945
Freud, Sigmund	p. 143
Tesla, Nikola	p. 149
Ford, Henry	p. 155
Carver, George Washington	p. 159
Curie, Marie Sklodowska	p. 163
Wright, Wilbur and Orville	p. 173
Adler, Alfred	p. 182
Carter, Howard	p. 184
Marconi, Guglielmo	p. 187
Jung, Carl Gustav	p. 189
Kroeber, Alfred	p. 191
Einstein, Albert	p. 193
Kenny, Elizabeth	p. 203
Goddard, Robert H.	p. 207
Malinowski, Bronislaw	p. 210
Fokker, Anthony	p. 214
Kinsey, Alfred	p. 218
Momsen, Charles Bowers "Swede"	p. 223
Blalock, Alfred	p. 227
Williams, David Marshall	p. 231
The Twentieth Century after 1945
Tucker, Preston	p. 235
Oppenheimer, J. Robert	p. 240
Hughes, Howard R., Jr.	p. 250
Farnsworth, Philo T.	p. 254
Von Braun, Wernher	p. 256
Wilkins, Maurice	p. 261
Feynman, Richard	p. 263
Franklin, Rosalind	p. 265
Mowat, Farley	p. 269
Kearns, Robert	p. 274
Bull, Gerald	p. 276
Nash, John Forbes, Jr.	p. 280
Watson, James D., and Crick, Francis H. C.	p. 285
Fossey, Dian	p. 290
Sacks, Oliver	p. 294
Boisjoly, Roger	p. 298
Canfield, William	p. 301
Jobs, Steve	p. 304
Gates, Bill	p. 307
Index	p. 311
About the Author	p. 323
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