QUANTUM LEAPS: 100 SCIENTISTS WHO CHANGED THE WORLD
Book ID/图书代码： 00657005B08523
English Summary/英文概要： ’If I saw further than others,’ said Sir Issac Newton, ’it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.’ ’Quantum Leaps’ introduces one hundred of these giants and examines their achievements: the men and women who, often in the face of extreme scepticism or worse, have striven and succeeded in pushing back the boundaries of human knowledge. Ranging across the spectrum of scientific endeavour, from the cosmology of Copernicus and Galileo, through the medical revolutions of Hippocrates and Galen, it includes the fields of physics, biology, chemistry and genetics.
This is the story of the ideas that have shaped the world today, and the ideas that will shape the future.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 牛顿曾说：“过如果我比别人看得更远，那是因为我站在巨人的肩上。”
本书介绍了从古至今100位伟人和他们的成就。按照年代先后顺序从2500年前的阿那克西曼德一直到现代科学家。每位科学都有详细而不枯燥的介绍和人物插图。本书不仅适合成人，而且是儿童和学生的必选书籍，能更好的帮助他们了解世界历史的发展。(BY)
Awards/获奖情况：此書最初在英國發佈時，書名為‘量子跳躍：改變世界的100位科學家’。Jon把這部首作在美國推廣時重命名為‘科學’。第二版已經在美國和英國兩地出版發行。此書的平裝版已在加拿大發行，並分別翻譯成德語，荷蘭語和克羅地亞語。美國‘電影科學書籍’雜誌提名此書為‘2004年度初中和高中讀者最佳圖書’，此書眾望所歸的獲得了‘純科學’類別獎。Balchin has produced a compact, highly readable panorama of two and a half millennia of science--- Science Books & Film
About the Author/作者介绍： Jon Balchin是一位屢獲殊榮《直到地級》的年僅32歲的作者。在英國的格蘭瑟姆出生長大，Jon 1997年畢業于英國倫敦大學。在他投身寫作生涯之前，數年來一直從事資訊技術行業。
作者的其他最新題材包括他的童書系列《蒂姆穿越歷史的間機器》。他的下一部非小說將題為《澳洲被遺忘的探索家：John McDouall Stuart》
Jon Balchin’s association with famous scientists extends beyond merely writing about them. He grew up in Issac Newton country. As a boy, he fished in the English village where the great physicist spent his childhood. In his teens, Jon attended the same historic grammar school in Grantham, Lincolnshire where Newton had studied more than three centuries earlier. The scientist’s mischievous boyhood signature remains carved in the library’s stonework even today.
The author obtained his higher education at the University of London, the institution where Rosalind Franklin undertook her pioneering work into the structure of DNA. It was also whilst at university Jon cut his writing teeth, editing his college newspaper.
Jon graduated in 1997 and, after a period working for the American oil giant ExxonMobil, became a full-time writer in summer 2001. Quantum Leaps is his first full-length non-fiction text. Jon’s first novel is also nearing completion. His other published work includes poetry, as well as celebrity, science and travel features.
The twenty-seven year old now lives in Surrey, England with his partner. Aside from writing, his passions are both playing and watching soccer, and travelling.
毕业后在美国美孚公司工作。2001年，JON成为全职作家。
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