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Reading books about scientists is a fantastic way to feed your brain. Always a unique read, books about scientists are nothing short of fascinating and help you learn more about scientific findings and experiments that changed the world, from Oppenheimer's physics behind the invention of nuclear war to Stephen Hawking's math that helped us wrap our heads around the Big Bang.

The best books about scientists are the ones that also give you a peek into the everyday life of a genius at work. You can learn about their motivations, their struggles, and their triumphs. You can also learn about the process of scientific discovery, from the first inklings of a new finding, through the controversy of a paradigm shift and all the way to the triumph of a Nobel Prize.

Here are 10 of the best books about scientists that will help you appreciate the world around you in a new way — and will inspire you to question the status quo.

Vintage Books American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

With the summer of “Barbenheimer” upon us, now is the perfect time to read the definitive biography of one of the most complicated figures in the history of American science: J. Robert Oppenheimer . Kai Bird and Martin Sherwin’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book follows the rise and fall of the ​​brilliant physicist behind the world’s first atomic bomb. The New York Times Bestseller uses Oppenheimer as a window into the making of the Cold War.

Dey Street Books Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout

This National Book Award Finalist combines archival photos, images, and clippings with dazzling line drawings to tell the story of legendary scientist Marie Curie and her husband and collaborator Pierre Curie . Reviewers praise this “sumptuously illustrated” narrative as a must-read for science enthusiasts of all ages. The book also inspired a major motion picture.

William Morrow Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, black female mathematicians at NASA used math to make it happen. Hidden Figures tells the phenomenal true story of Mary Jackson , Katherine Johnson , and other black mathematicians whose calculations helped fuel American spaceflight. This #1 New York Times bestseller was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated film starring Taraji P. Henson , Octavia Spencer , Janelle Monae , and Kevin Costner .

Pantheon The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer

Meet Victorian London’s most dynamic duo: Charles Babbage , the unrealized inventor of the computer, and his accomplice, Ada, Countess of Lovelace , the peculiar proto programmer and daughter of Lord Byron . While this delightful graphic novel strays into historical fiction by imagining a world where Babbage and Lovelace had turned their theoretical machines into Victorian-era computers, it’s still packed with facts about the pair of very real geniuses.

Simon & Schuster A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr.

In a story as heartbreaking as it is inspiring, A Beautiful Mind follows the tumultuous life of Nobel Prize winner John Forbes Nash, Jr. Decades after debilitating schizophrenia derailed his brilliant career, Nash defied the odds to return to teaching and win one of the highest honors in his field for his work on Game Theory. This account inspired the Academy Award-winning movie starring Russell Crowe .

Union Square Kids Queen of Physics: How Wu Chien Shiung Helped Unlock the Secrets of the Atom

Wu Chien Shiung overcame sexism and racism to become the “Queen of Physics,” with research admired by scientists like Enrico Fermi and Robert Oppenheimer . She would later become the first female instructor hired by Princeton University and the first woman to lead the American Physical Society. This inspiring, engaging, and beautifully illustrated book is perfect for any child interested in science.

Knopf On the Move: A Life

When Oliver Sacks was twelve-years-old, his report card read: “Sacks will go far if he does not go too far.” In this honest and charming memoir, the late neurologist and science writer shares the struggles and triumphs that fueled him to help countless patients and change the way the world viewed the human mind.

Back Bay Books Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

This book recounts Operation Paperclip, in which the U.S. government ferried Third Reich scientists into influential American jobs. This decades-long, covert project brought 1,600 German scientists, engineers, and technicians to the U.S. along with their families, including active members of the Nazi party . This book untangles how the legacies of men like Wernher von Braun cast a dark shadow on the history of American innovation.

Simon & Schuster Einstein: His Life and Universe

Walter Isaacson—who has written biographies of Leonardo da Vinci , Steve Jobs , Benjamin Franklin , and others—consistently knocks it out of the park when it comes to telling the life stories of public figures. His biography of Albert Einstein is no exception. This meticulously researched and utterly engaging book shows how Einstein’s rebellious personality enabled his brilliant research—and how his findings helped shape the modern age for better and for worse.

St. Martin's Griffin The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World

The famous researcher Stephen J. Gould once called Mary Anning "probably the most important unsung (or inadequately sung) collecting force in the history of paleontology.” Born in 1799, Anning spent her childhood hunting for fossils as a source of income for her family. Her prolific paleontological finds would eventually catch the attention of museums and academics—and help inspire and support Charles Darwin ’s work on evolution.

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Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science by Jimena Canales

Five fascinating books about scientists, selected by historian of science Jimena Canales . She explains how the scientific persona has been constructed throughout history and explores the implicit assumptions about agency, subjectivity, and causality that underlie scientific biographies.

Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne

The Pasteurization of France by Bruno Latour

Madame Curie: A Biography by Eve Curie

Lab Girl by Hope Jahren

Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject by Hélène Mialet

1 Charles Darwin: The Power of Place by Janet Browne

2 the pasteurization of france by bruno latour, 3 madame curie: a biography by eve curie, 4 lab girl by hope jahren, 5 hawking incorporated: stephen hawking and the anthropology of the knowing subject by hélène mialet.

S cientists are the topic of the brilliant books you’ve selected. Although science has been afoot since ancient times, the word ‘scientist’ is a relatively recent invention. William Whewell coined it in 1833. What is a scientist and what made scientists?

Whewell did not pull out his label from thin air—the Latin term s cientia was widely used since ancient times. Many other words with different roots refer to knowledge and wisdom and those who seek it, such as investigator, prospector and researcher (from Old French cerchier .) In recent years, the field of history of science has expanded to include many other practitioners who did not go by the term “scientist,” just as it has expanded in focus geographically beyond Western Europe and North America. After all, it is those individuals who have been responsible for adding the most to the stock of valuable knowledge available to us.

In Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science I cover a much broader set of researchers to overcome the false dichotomy that is usually drawn between modern and Western traditions and primitive and foreign ones. The scientists in my book thus appear to be not so different from the demonologists of yesteryear, as both were equally concerned with creatures who could break or bend the laws of nature.

Science’s conversation with philosophy was the topic of your prize-winning book, The Physicist & The Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time . What does that book teach about what it means to be a scientist?

Einstein’s debate with the renowned French philosopher Henri Bergson on April 6, 1922 in Paris, is a key moment where we see a shift in the role attributed to “the scientist” versus “the philosopher.” Einstein is typically seen as having won the debate, so this marks the moment when science took the baton away from philosophy with respect to discussing matters of time and when a particular understanding of time associated with scientific rationality and expertise gained prominence. Time basically became what clocks measured.

“Most of the biographical accounts have given us a deceptive view of the profession”

The more interesting question raised by Bergson – why clocks were invented and why they were used – was shelved. Although the twentieth century ended with a physical understanding of time firmly ensconced, the victory came with consequences. Einstein and Bergson actively pushed contradictory political and cultural projects in a century of escalating violence. Those divisions reflected a split in how time was understood versus how it was experienced. Individuals struggled to survive in a world regulated by objective clock time measurements as they learned to live in a world divided into science and art, the public and personal, the abstract and the concrete. The contradictions once represented by the two men gained independent lives of their own, appearing as timeless as time itself.

In Simply Einstein you offer a succinct introduction to the most familiar icon of modern science, studded with original insights into what enabled Einstein’s genius to effloresce. Please tell us about the book and how the history of scientific biographies informed what you wrote.

Turning to your first recommendation, the second part of a two-volume biography of another icon of science. This is Harvard historian Janet Browne’s prize-winning Charles Darwin: The Power of Place . Please tell me about.

Disclosures first: Browne is a mentor and friend, so I know a little more about how her personal interests intersected with historiographic preoccupations that drive her narrative. She succeeds in giving us a full picture of the man but, like my own Einstein bio, it bites the genre and expands it.

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Browne contends that Darwin’s theories of evolution were nourished by his systematic correspondence with other scientists. Does she succeed in showing that Darwinism was the product of collective thought?

Sciences Po professor Bruno Latour wrote your next recommendation, about the great French scientist Louis Pasteur. Please tell me about The Pasteurization of France .

The book is an ambitious contribution that starts off by comparing accounts of the great scientist with those of Napoleon to try to figure out what is special about how we narrate the lives of scientists compared to those of others, including generals or political figures, but it quickly goes even farther in its historiographic contributions. Microbes enter into the narrative. The book’s “hylozoism,” or its inclusion of non-human agents, seemed heretical at the time it was published. Still, no one can deny that Pasteur was only successful in his scientific work because he managed to make microbes work for him. In the era of COVID-19, where we are all concerned with making viruses behave in our favor with vaccinations, masks and other strategies pioneered by Pasteur, the book is a must read.

Critics are divided about this book.

Moving on, please tell me about Madame Curie: A Biography by her daughter Eve.

Biographies , sometimes starting with autobiographies , are essential for consecration and canonization. For example, readers mostly took Darwin’s own autobiography at face value as testament to his greatness—until a close reading by Janet Browne disclosed how it was evidently not written for his immediate family, although it claimed to be so. Einstein similarly used biography and autobiography very effectively to crown himself as an exceptional thinker. The first Einstein biography to consecrate him in this way was actually pseudonymously written by his son-in-law, predictably portraying him as a lonely and modest (even shabbily dressed) genius. Like Darwin before him, Einstein was so concerned with his self-image that when his ex-wife proposed to write her memoirs of their life together, he threatened to give her a good thrashing if she went through with her plan.

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Madame Curie also serves a hagiographic function, but the biography is different because the reason for her worship is not confined to her work and mind, or even to her roles as Polish immigrant, wife, or mother. It is movingly written by her daughter, Eve, and the author convinces us to care about her because she is human and fragile: “exceptional not only in her genius, but by her humanity, by her innate refusal of all vulgarity and littleness.”

“Marie Curie is the role model for every girl who states a claim to the life of the mind,” according to her daughter Eve. Can you make the case for that quote?

I hope not—she is such a tragic role model. I do believe that the book does offer a different picture of “the mind” than we are used to in biographies of scientists. It is much more embodied. Eve’s descriptions of her own fleshy-and-boney scientists-parents comes with a strange upside for readers. There is more gore in her book than I have ever read in scientists’ biographies. Of her father’s death, she writes:

beneath the feet of the powerful horses. Pedestrians cried “Stop! Stop!” The driver pulled on the reins, but in vain: the team of horses kept on. Pierre was down, but alive and unhurt. He did not cry out and hardly moved. His body passed between the feet of the horses without even being touched, and then between the two front wheels of the wagon. A miracle was possible. But the enormous mass, dragged on by its weight of six tons, continued for several yards more. The left back wheel encountered a feeble obstacle which it crushed in passing: a forehead, a human head. The cranium was shattered and a red, viscous matter trickled in all directions in the mud: the brain of Pierre Curie.

The retelling of her mom’s difficult death is no less chilling. It is no surprise to me that one of the first biographies of a scientist that emphasized general human qualities in its subject was of a female scientist, written by her female offspring.

Scientists often need to detour from research to pursue the funding that fuels their work.  An introduction to this biography brings forth how Madame Curie’s quest for funding caused her to craft an appealing public persona. Can you please tell us about that aspect of the book and how the need for money shapes the lives of scientists generally?

A bestselling, award-winning scientific memoir by botanist Hope Jahren is next. Please tell me about Lab Girl.

Scientific biographies most often focus on Great Famous Men—but most scientists reach neither fame nor glory. Lab Girl reminds us how the profession of the scientist has changed, how hard and unglamourous it is. In some senses, it is a book that annihilates with a single, first-person-punch the entire genre of biographies of luminaries such as Newton , Galileo and Einstein meant to glorify. Being a scientist is really very different for most people. Most of the biographical accounts have given us a deceptive view of the profession.

Lab Girl recalls for me the musing of the famous philosopher of science Donald Trump. He frequently posited that he had “a natural instinct” and “natural ability” for science, which he related to the fact that his uncle was a scientist. Jahren, the daughter of a scientist who grew up playing in her father’s lab, portrays herself as called to botany. Her introspection invites the question: Did Jahren inherit a scientific gene from her father or grow up so steeped in the scientific method that she was destined to become a scientist? Is it nature or nurture that makes scientists?

Most biographies are rife with conjectures (usually implicit) about the respective influence of upbringing, innate psychology , and the broader environment. Yet we also now know that it is impossible to parse out these elements in fixed and abstract terms across all time and history. Nature and nurture have been taken to polarizing extremes that are commonly used to ascribe blame or take credit. For this reason, I love biographies that confront “life and work” in a way that problematizes those labels. They can not only help us realize that nature requires nurture and nurture nature, but to move beyond those tired questions to think about the emergence of the categories we use to organize knowledge more generally, and to choose ones that do not drive us into such impasses.

Hawking Incorporated by professor of science and technology Hélène Mialet is last on your list.

Hawking Incorporated is essential reading for anyone interested in “distributed cognition,” the idea that thinking mostly takes place outside of our minds—but it is also a great story of how a severely mobility-challenged being was able to escape from his constraints to do something which contemporary science currently prohibits: to remain active in the universe even after death.

All the books you’ve chosen question the singularity of scientists’ minds and the singularity of individual achievements generally. What does science show about the hypothesis that, to a degree, all minds are hive minds?

A typical trope in scientific biographies, starting with those of Newton, stresses how geniuses often work in isolation, lost in thoughts that are not concerned with the mundane. This characteristic tells us a lot about how the scientific persona has been constructed throughout history, but it gives us a distorted view of what scientific work actually entails.

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Without a doubt, female scientists have had enormous impact on our understanding of the world and beyond. Yet, throughout the centuries much of their work has gone unrecognized, and even today, STEM fields are majority male. So, here are some books about female scientists that will remind you to celebrate the women who pursue these careers. This list includes plenty of biographies and memoirs of IRL scientists who made amazing discoveries. There's also a few absolutely unputdownable novels about female scientist characters.

You don't have to be interested in any realm of science to enjoy these books. The narratives are propulsive and gorgeously written, and you might discover that you're more interested in jellyfish or rocket science than you previously thought. Plus, it's beyond important that young women have visible role models in the scientific community. My hope is that on this list, you'll find a book with a female scientist who inspires you to pursue your passions, whatever they might be. After all, you don't have to be a scientist to be inspired by these women's stories. These books are filled with women — real and fictional — who are headstrong, brave, and dedicated to the pursuit of discovery. Reading about them is certain to set a fire in your belly:

'Lab Girl' by Hope Jahren

This beautiful memoir by Hope Jahren is a love-letter to biology. As Jahren details the story of her career, you'll find yourself enthralled by the way she makes science come alive.

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'Spineless' by Juli Berwald

In this stunning memoir, Juli Berwald takes you into the wide, wonderful world of jellyfish. Yes, jellyfish, and yes, it's fascinating. Berwald tells the story of how, after leaving a career in ocean science, she developed an obsession with jellyfish that drew her back to the sea.

'Sleeping Giants' by Sylvain Neuvel

In this unforgettable novel, Rose, a physicist, leads a team of researchers determined to unlock the secrets of a mysterious, robotic hand that she stumbled upon as a young girl.

'Rise of the Rocket Girls: The Women Who Propelled Us, from Missiles to the Moon to Mars' by Nathalia Holt

This book tells the incredible story of the women who, in the '40s and '50s, worked as mathematicians in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where they laid the plans for the first rockets. Based on interviews with the living members of the team, this nonfiction book is a fascinating look at the women who shaped our understanding of space — but never got credit for it.

'Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis' by Kim Todd

In the 17th century, at the age of 50, naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian sailed from Europe to the New World on a solo scientific expedition to study insect metamorphosis, opening innumerable doors for the field of ecology. This is the story of that journey.

'The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World' by Shelley Emling

Did you know that the first dinosaur skeleton was discovered by a 12-year-old girl in 1811? That girl, Mary Anning, went on to become a fossil hunter who proved to the world that dinosaurs had gone extinct and laid the groundwork for Darwin's Theory of Evolution.

'The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (Mostly) True Story of the First Computer' by Sydney Padua

Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and assistant to inventor Charles Babbage, is the mother of computer science, known for adding extensive notes to Babbage's designs for the first computer all the way back in 1842. In real life, Babbage and Lovelace never built any of their machines. But this wonderful graphic novel imagines what it would have been like if they had built their supercomputer, taking you on all kinds of adventures along the way.

'In the Shadow of Man' by Jane Goodall

Jane Goodall is obviously one of the most well-known female scientists, famous for her study of chimpanzees. This book, her account of living with primates, is a classic that you can't miss.

'Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World' by Rachel Swaby

Why read about one female scientist, when you can read about 52? This excellent book gives profiles on 52 women who have made incredible contributions to science, all of whom are sure to become your new role model.

'The Other Einstein' by Marie Benedict

This historical fiction novel zeroes in on a woman you may not have heard much about: Mileva “Mitza” Marić, Albert Einstein's first wife, who was a brilliant physicist in her own right. This enthralling novel sheds an interesting light on the (somewhat controversial) question of how Mitza's contributions impacted husband's famous discoveries.

'Ammonite' by Nicola Griffith

This science fiction novel is set on a planet called Jeep, where centuries earlier a virus shattered the human colony, killing all the men and altering the few surviving women. Now, anthropologist Marghe Taishan has arrived to test a new vaccine on the population and discover their biological secrets.

'Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life' by Georgina Ferry

This is one of the most-loved biographies about a female scientist out there. Dorothy Hodgkin was Britain's first (and only, so far) female scientist to win the Nobel Prize. A leader in the field of crystallography, she discovered the structures of insulin, penicillin, and vitamin B12.

'Find Where The Wind Goes: Moments From My Life' by Dr. Mae Jemison

As the first black woman to go into space, Mae Jemison is a huge inspiration to us all. In this wonderful biography, Jemison tells you stories from her life's work as a scientist, doctor, teacher, actress, and activist.

'Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA' by Brenda Maddox

In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize for discovering the layout of DNA, but behind their discovery was the work of Rosalind Franklin, a woman whose vast contributions to science have been overlooked. This enthralling biography will tell you the fascinating story of Franklin's life and work.

'The Signature of All Things' by Elizabeth Gilbert

In this sweeping novel about a remarkable family during the Industrial Revolution, Alma Whitaker is a gifted botanist researching the mysteries of evolution. But after falling in love with an artist, she unexpectedly finds herself drawn to the spiritual world.

'The Movement of Stars' by Amy Brill

This historical fiction novel is set in 1845 Nantucket, where — despite the expectations of her Quaker community — astronomer Hannah Gardner Price is determined to discover a comet. But when she takes a student under her wing, and a relationship blossoms, Hannah finds herself on an unexpected path. This book is inspired by the work of Maria Mitchell, the first professional female astronomer in America.

'Prodigal Summer' by Barbara Kingsolver

Did you know that Barbara Kingsolver herself has a degree in biology? This book centers on reclusive wildlife biologist Deanna Wolfe, who is watching a den of wildlife coyotes when she finds her space unexpectedly invaded by a stranger.

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Understanding current environmental issues requires having a critical eye to all information related to the release and distribution of chemicals into the environment. This new book offers scientists, researchers, and students an essential understanding of natural environments and the way in which they function by providing clear explanations of the fundamental aspects of environmental science and technology from a multidisciplinary perspective. Written in a convenient and easy-to-read style, this volume covers the important aspects of environmental science and technology, focusing on the many issues that are related to the effects of chemical waste on various ecosystems as well as on pollutant mitigation and clean-up. The volume discusses several key environmental problems such as pollution, ozone layer depletion, acid rain, and global warming affecting the Earth’s atmosphere, aquasphere, and geosphere over the past four decades. The author takes an interdisciplinary approach to explain the environmental conditions of earth affected by physical, chemical, biological, and human interactions that transform and transport materials and energy. The Science and Technology of the Environment is a ready-at-hand guide to the many issues that are related to the effects of chemicals on various ecosystems as well as to pollutant mitigation and clean-up that will be valuable to students at all levels as well as a refresher for scientists, researchers, policymakers, and others.

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James G. Speight, PhD , has over 50 years of experience in petroleum engineering and related areas and is the author of more than 90 books on petroleum science, petroleum engineering, biosciences, and environmental sciences. His work has also focused on safety issues, environmental effects, remediation, reactors associated with the production and use of fuels and biofuels, process economics, as well as ethics in science and engineering, and ethics in universities. Although he has always worked in private industry that focused on contract-based work, he was a visiting professor at the University of Mosul (Iraq), Technical University of Denmark, and University of Trinidad and Tobago. Dr. Speight has been honored with many awards, including awards from the United States National Petroleum Engineering Society, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the University of Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States Institute of Trade and Commerce, Washington, DC.

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Lenox Library will host a book discussion and craft with social worker and brain-expert Jen Daily, director of counseling at Deerfield Academy and author of the new book, "The Magical Science of Feelings: Train Your Amazing Brain to Quiet Anger, Soothe Sadness, Calm Worry, and Share Joy," at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 14. 

In "The Magical Science of Feelings," Daily helps kids understand the science behind feelings, taking them on a lively tour of the brain to see where anger, anxiety, sadness, and joy start, and offering activities for calming emotions.

Weather permitting, this event will take place in Roche Reading Park, located next to the Library at 18 Main St. Brains of all ages welcome. Copies of Daily's book will be available for purchase and signing courtesy of The Bookstore.

Information: 413-637-0197 or  lenoxlib.org .

Jeannie Maschino can be reached at 413-496-6256 or [email protected] .

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