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Leonardo Da Vinci

By Walter Isaacson

Bushmaster: Raymond Ditmars and the Hunt for the World's Largest Viper

By Dan Eatherley

The Unexpected Einstein: The Real Man Behind the Icon

By Denis Brian

The Genius in My Basement

By Alexander Masters

Einstein: His Life and Universe

By Walter Isaacson

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

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Hedys Folly

By Richard Rhodes

Brilliant Lives: The Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish Enlightenment

By John W. Arthur

The Recollections of Eugene P. Wigner

By Eugene Paul Wigner, Andrew Szanton

Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann

By Ioan James (University of Oxford)

Oliver Heaviside: Maverick Mastermind of Electricity

By Basil Mahon

Naturalist

By Edward O. Wilson

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character

By Richard P. Feynman

The Character of Physical Law (Penguin Press Science)

By Richard P Feynman

The Small World of Fred Hoyle

By Sir Fred Hoyle

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Climate Generation

By Lorna Gold

A Voice in the Wilderness: A Pioneering Biologist Explains How Evolution Can Help Us Solve Our Biggest Problems

By Joseph L Graves Jr

Into the Gray Zone: A Neuroscientist Explores the Mysteries of the Brain and the Border Between Life and Death

By Adrian Owen

Schroedinger: Life and Thought

By Walter J. Moore

Six Roads from Newton: Great Discoveries in Physics

By Edward Speyer

Tuva or Bust!: Richard Feynman's Last Journey

By Ralph Leighton

No Ordinary Genius

By Christopher Sykes

The Man Who Knew Infinity

By Robert Kanigel

A Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud and Sabina Spielrein

By John Kerr

The Equation That Couldn't Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry: How a Mathmatical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry

By Mario Livio

Fred Hoyle's Universe

By Jane Gregory (, Lecturer in Science Communication and Science Policy, University College London)

The Inventor of Stereo: The life and works of Alan Dower Blumlein

By Robert Alexander

What is Real?: The Unfinished Quest for the Meaning of Quantum Physics

By Adam Becker

A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash

By Sylvia Nasar