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Wonderful classroom tool or gift for inspiring scientists. The breakdown of the scientific categories was helpful and easy to follow. My 19 year old niece who is an inspiring chemist thought it was great

This was a fine variation of this kind of thing, even though it could never be said a good thing to read from cover to cover. This is for a quick dip of a browse now and then, or for reference. We get profiles of 25 scientists, from Alan Turing to the Chinese-American female physicist on the Manhattan Project, about whom I certainly had never heard. Their pages are peppered with quotes, questions about science etc, and some ideas for things we might look into studying ourselves as budding scientists. After every main block, three relevant projects are listed in greater detail for us to work on, so our absence from the next science fair looks less and less likely.

This certainly had a variety of people, from a variety of disciplines, even if the great bulk of them studied in American academe. But it is from people who know their stuff – the subjects here were often people I'd never once encountered in all my years reviewing such books. And it's certainly not just the biographies that these pages have been put together for – here is a guide to entering said science fair, and how to think about becoming a scientist, both on the smaller, day-to-day basis, and so as to have an academic career.

I think it's a hard balance to achieve, the reportage of the past stories of the people highlighted alongside the ebullience and enthusiasm of the narrator's urging us to the lab, and to find out what would drive us to learn and what we'd be keen to find out. I can't be convinced that balance is achieved, but this is as close as you're going to get, and this bulky read could well be a fine present for someone just on the cusp of turning their focus to one of the -ologies. It's a volume with a potential to really change things around us for the better, and it's certainly done well enough to get a strong four stars.

The diversity of this book is wonderful! The cultural topics that are included are phenomenal. EVERYONE can be a scientist!

The set up is great! The bios are short enough to not lose interst but give great information. Built in acceptance of all and resiliency are expressed throughout. The short reflective questions are great for the corw of science! How do we use what wr have learned from others to continue the movement of science!