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