Great Scientists and Their Discoveries

* Galileo Galilei * Robert Boyle * Isaac Newton * Michael Faraday * Charles Darwin * Gregor Mendel * Albert Einstein * James Watson & Francis Crick How did the great scientists make their remarkable discoveries? And what kind of men were they? This companion volume to Great Inventors and Their Inventions introduces the work of nine men to younger readers, and ranges from the world of Ancient Greece to the 20th century discovery of DNA. Included are the crucial discovery that the earth goes around the sun (Galileo), the principle of gravity (Newton), the evolution of the species (Darwin) and the principle of inherited characteristics or genetics (Mendel). Clare Corbett was the Carleton Hobbs winner in 2000 and since then has been heard on BBC Radio Repertory and seen in regional theatres. She is a familiar face to television viewers having appeared in The Bill, Fastnet, Spooks, Casualty, and final Demand. She has also read Venus and Adonis for Naxos Audiobooks. Benjamin Soames trained at LAMDA. Since then, he has been active on both stage and screen, appearing in the popular TV series Sharpe and touring worldwide in the acclaimed Cheek by Jowl production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure directed by Declan Donnelan. He also reads Tales from the Norse Legends, The Tale of Troy, and The Adventures of Odysseus for Naxos AudioBooks.