People You Should Know
People You Should Know
Editors: Faulkner, Nicholas, Coakley, Louis and Lachner, Elizabeth et.al
Publication Year: 2017
Publisher: Britannica Digital Learning
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-62-513436-3
Category: Biography
Image Count:
155
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
People You Should Know introduces readers to some of the most remarkable scientists, mathematicians, and world leaders of all time - individuals who are well worth knowing on a personal and professional level.
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Table of Contents
- Top 101 Authors
- Introduction
- Louisa May Alcott
- Maya Angelou
- Isaac Asimov
- W.H. Auden
- Jane Austen
- James Baldwin
- Samuel Beckett
- William Blake
- Jorge Luis Borges
- William S. Burroughs
- Lord Byron
- Truman Capote
- Lewis Carroll
- Raymond Carver
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Raymond Chandler
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- John Cheever
- Anton Chekhov
- Joseph Conrad
- Stephen Crane
- Daniel Defoe
- Don DeLillo
- Philip K. Dick
- Charles Dickens
- Emily Dickinson
- Joan Didion
- Arthur Conan Doyle
- George Eliot
- Ralph Ellison
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- William Faulkner
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Gustave Flaubert
- E.M. Forster
- Robert Frost
- Gabriel García Márquez
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Dashiell Hammett
- Thomas Hardy
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- Ernest Hemingway
- Victor Hugo
- Aldous Huxley
- Washington Irving
- Henry James
- P.D. James
- James Joyce
- Franz Kafka
- John Keats
- Jack Kerouac
- Stephen King
- Rudyard Kipling
- D.H. Lawrence
- Harper Lee
- Doris May Lessing
- C.S. Lewis
- Jack London
- Niccolò Machiavelli
- Thomas Mann
- Herman Melville
- Arthur Miller
- John Milton
- Toni Morrison
- Haruki Murakami
- Vladimir Nabokov
- V.S. Naipaul
- Joyce Carol Oates
- Flannery O'Connor
- George Orwell
- Sylvia Plath
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Marcel Proust
- Philip Roth
- J.K. Rowling
- Salman Rushdie
- J.D. Salinger
- William Shakespeare
- George Bernard Shaw
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
- Gertrude Stein
- John Steinbeck
- Jonathan Swift
- Henry David Thoreau
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Leo Tolstoy
- Mark Twain
- Mario Vargas Llosa
- Jules Verne
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
- Alice Walker
- Edith Wharton
- Walt Whitman
- Elie Wiesel
- Oscar Wilde
- Tennessee Williams
- Mary Wollstonecraft
- Virginia Woolf
- Richard Wright
- William Butler Yeats
- Émile Zola
- Glossary
- Top 101 Mathematicians
- Introduction
- Niels Henrik Abel
- Apollonius of Perga
- Archimedes
- Aryabhata I
- Michael Francis Atiyah
- Charles Babbage
- Benjamin Banneker
- Isaac Barrow
- Bhaskara I
- Bhaskara II
- George David Birkhoff
- George Boole
- Satyendra Nath Bose
- Nathaniel Bowditch
- Brahmagupta
- Henry Briggs
- Georg Cantor
- Jerome Cardan
- Augustin-Louis Cauchy
- Bonaventura Cavalieri
- Gabrielle-Émilie Châtelet
- Richard Courant
- August Leopold Crelle
- Jean le Rond d'Alembert
- Pierre René Deligne
- Girard Desargues
- René Descartes
- Diophantus of Alexandria
- Paul Erdős
- Euclid
- Leonhard Euler
- Pierre de Fermat
- Leonardo Fibonacci
- Joseph Fourier
- Gottlob Frege
- Évariste Galois
- Carl Friedrich Gauss
- Sophie Germain
- Kurt Gödel
- George Green
- Alexandre Grothendieck
- Edmund Gunter
- John Hadley
- Chester Moor Hall
- William Rowan Hamilton
- Thomas Harriot
- Heron of Alexandria
- David Hilbert
- Fred Hoyle
- Christiaan Huygens
- Hypatia
- Carl Jacobi
- al-Khwarizmi
- Andrey Nikolayevich Kolmogorov
- Joseph-Louis Lagrange
- Pierre-Simon Laplace
- Adrien-Marie Legendre
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Sophus Lie
- Liu Hui
- Nikolay Ivanovich Lobachevsky
- Colin Maclaurin
- Benoit Mandelbrot
- Marin Mersenne
- Hermann Minkowski
- Gaspard Monge
- John Napier
- John F. Nash, Jr.
- John von Neumann
- Isaac Newton
- Jerzy Neyman
- Emmy Noether
- Hermann Oberth
- Omar Khayyám
- Luca Pacioli
- Pappus of Alexandria
- Blaise Pascal
- Karl Pearson
- Roger Penrose
- Henri Poincaré
- Pythagoras
- Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Bernhard Riemann
- Gilles Personne de Roberval
- Bertrand Russell
- Jean-Pierre Serre
- Isadore Manuel Singer
- Jakob Steiner
- Niccolò Tartaglia
- John Tate
- Evangelista Torricelli
- Alan Turing
- S.R. Srinivasa Varadhan
- François Viète
- John Wallis
- Karl Weierstrass
- André Weil
- Hermann Weyl
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Norbert Wiener
- Andrew Wiles
- Glossary
- Top 101 Reformers, Revolutionaries, Activists and Change Agents
- Introduction
- Jane Addams
- Ai Weiwei
- Muhammad Ali
- Kofi Annan
- Susan B. Anthony
- Ella Baker
- Benazir Bhutto
- Simón Bolívar
- Louis D. Brandeis
- David Ross Brower
- John Brown
- Pearl S. Buck
- Rachel Carson
- Jimmy Carter
- Cesar Estrada Chavez
- Michael Collins
- Dalai Lama
- Charles Darwin
- Eugene V. Debs
- John Dewey
- Frederick Douglass
- W. E. B. Du Bois
- Medgar Wiley Evers
- Henry Ford
- Francis I
- Betty Friedan
- John Kenneth Galbraith
- Galileo
- Indira Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Leymah Gbowee
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Albert Gore, Jr.
- Che Guevara
- Johannes Gutenberg
- Abbie Hoffman
- Jesse Jackson
- Thomas Jefferson
- Joan of Arc
- Saint John Paul II
- Tawakkul Karmān
- Florence Kelley
- John F. Kennedy
- John Maynard Keynes
- Billie Jean King
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- John Lennon
- John L. Lewis
- Abraham Lincoln
- Liu Xiaobo
- Martin Luther
- Malcolm X
- Nelson Mandela
- Thurgood Marshall
- Harvey Milk
- Michael Moore
- Lucretia Mott
- John Muir
- A. J. Muste
- Ralph Nader
- Barack Obama
- George Orwell
- Rosa L. Parks
- Frances Perkins
- Wendell Phillips
- Homer Plessy
- A. Philip Randolph
- Paul Robeson
- Jackie Robinson
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- Bayard Rustin
- Oscar Arias Sánchez
- Margaret Sanger
- Kailash Satyarthi
- Dred Scott
- Pete Seeger
- Upton Sinclair
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Lincoln Steffens
- Gloria Steinem
- I. F. Stone
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Blessed Mother Teresa
- Margaret Thatcher
- Norman Thomas
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Desmond Tutu
- William Tyndale
- Voltaire
- Lech Wałẻsa
- William Wallace
- Earl Warren
- George Washington
- Cornel West
- Elie Wiesel
- Malala Yousafzai
- Muhammad Yunus
- Glossary
- Top 101 Scientists
- Introduction
- Luis W. Alvarez
- Archimedes
- Aristotle
- Avicenna
- David Baltimore
- Daniel Bernoulli
- Joseph Black
- Niels Bohr
- Max Born
- Robert Boyle
- Robert Brown
- Henry Cavendish
- Arthur Holly Compton
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Francis Crick
- Marie Curie
- Georges Cuvier
- John Dalton
- Charles Darwin
- P. A. M. Dirac
- Theodosius Dobzhansky
- Gerald Maurice Edelman
- Albert Einstein
- Michael Faraday
- Enrico Fermi
- Richard P. Feynman
- Andrew Z. Fire
- Alexander Fleming
- Rosalind Franklin
- Galen of Pergamum
- Galileo
- George Gamow
- Murray Gell-Mann
- Jane Goodall
- Otto Hahn
- Edmond Halley
- William Harvey
- Stephen Hawking
- Werner Heisenberg
- Hermann von Helmholtz
- William Herschel
- Peter Higgs
- Hippocrates
- Robert Hooke
- Alexander von Humboldt
- James Hutton
- Christiaan Huygens
- Ibn al-Haytham
- James Prescott Joule
- Lord Kelvin
- Johannes Kepler
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
- Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace
- Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
- Louis S. B. Leakey
- Anton van Leeuwenhoek
- Justus, baron von Liebig
- Carolus Linnaeus
- Charles Lyell
- Marcello Malpighi
- Lynn Margulis
- James Clerk Maxwell
- Barbara McClintock
- Lise Meitner
- Craig C. Mello
- Gregor Mendel
- Dmitry Mendeleyev
- Thomas Hunt Morgan
- Isaac Newton
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
- Louis Pasteur
- Linus Pauling
- Max Planck
- Joseph Priestley
- Stanley Prusiner
- Ptolemy
- Ernest Rutherford
- Carl Sagan
- Abdus Salam
- Frederick Sanger
- Matthias Schleiden
- Erwin Schrödinger
- Theodor Schwann
- George Gaylord Simpson
- Edward Teller
- Nikola Tesla
- Thales of Miletus
- J. J. Thomson
- Tycho Brahe
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
- Andreas Vesalius
- Alessandro Volta
- James Dewey Watson
- Alfred Wegener
- Steven Weinberg
- Edward O. Wilson
- Edward Witten
- Chien-shiung Wu
- Shinya Yamanaka
- Chen Ning Yang
- Yukawa Hideki
- Glossary
- Top 101 Women of STEM
- Introduction
- Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- Frances E. Allen
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Mary Anning
- Virginia Apgar
- Anna Atkins
- Hertha Marks Ayrton
- Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey
- Sara Josephine Baker
- Clara Barton
- Laura Bassi
- Ruth Benedict
- Louise Blanchard Bethune
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Emily Blackwell
- Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton
- Linda B. Buck
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Rachel Carson
- Margaret Chan
- Gabrielle-Émilie Châtelet
- Cornelia Maria Clapp
- Johnnetta Cole
- Eileen Collins
- Anna Botsford Comstock
- Gerty Cori
- Elena Cornaro
- Marie Curie
- Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt
- Gertrude B. Elion
- Alice Evans
- Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming
- Alice Cunningham Fletcher
- Dian Fossey
- Rosalind Franklin
- Sophie Germain
- Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth
- Jane Goodall
- Temple Grandin
- Evelyn Granville
- Claudie Haigneré
- Alice Hamilton
- Anna Jane Harrison
- Susan Helms
- Caroline Lucretia Herschel
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Grace Hopper
- Libbie Henrietta Hyman
- Hypatia
- Lisa Jackson
- Mae Jemison
- Irène Joliot-Curie
- Ada King, Countess of Lovelace
- Yelena Kondakova
- Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
- Hedy Lamarr
- Mary Douglas Leakey
- Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Inge Lehmann
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Barbara Jane Liskov
- Jane Lubchenco
- Wangari Maathai
- Lynn Margulis
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Barbara McClintock
- Margaret Mead
- Lise Meitner
- Maria Sibylla Merian
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- Maria Mitchell
- Clelia Duel Mosher
- Florence Nightingale
- Emmy Noether
- Antonia Novello
- Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
- Ellen Ochoa
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Dixy Lee Ray
- Ellen Swallow Richards
- Sally Ride
- Emily Warren Roebling
- Florence Rena Sabin
- Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya
- Ellen Churchill Semple
- Helen Sharman
- Mary Somerville
- Nettie Maria Stevens
- Kathryn Sullivan
- Helen Brooke Taussig
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Mary Watson Whitney
- Peggy Whitson
- Sunita Williams
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
- Yi Soyeon
- Ada Yonath
- Glossary