Scientists are often presented as old men in white coats, but this series shows that great discoveries have been made by people of all ages and cultures - some are young people, and many are female.

 

There are 288 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd .

This book has the following chapters: Volume 1: The Girl Who Found a Flying Dragon (Mary Anning); The Boy Who Went Searching for Giants (Georges Cuvier); Love, Rocks and the First Dinosaur (Mary Morland); The Bug Boy Solves a Huge Mystery (Louis Agassiz); The Girl Who Loved the Biggest Rock of All (Inge Lehman); Volume 2: The Man Who Saw a Living Skeleton (Wilhelm Rontgen); The Servant Girl Who Beat Einstein (Marie Curie); The Boy Who Climbed to the Top (Abdus Salam); The Quiet Queen of Physics (Wu Chien-Shiung); The Boy Who Secretly Read the Books He Was Binding (Michael Faraday); Volume 3: The Girl, the Pearl and the Not-So-Sad Story (Lilavati); The Boy with No Birthday (Carl Gauss); The Math Girl Who Stunned the World (Philippa Garrett); The Penniless Youth Who Amazed the Professors (Srinivasa Ramanujan); The Good Witch Who Made an Amazing Decision (Maria Agnesi); Volume 4: The Unloved Teenager and the Giant Calculator (Ada Byron Lovelace); The Scientist and the Secret in the Ancient Book (Tu Youyou); The Impossibly Young Doctors (Balamurali Ambati and Sho Timothy Yano); The Motherless Child Who Solved His Father's Problem (Blaise Pascal); The Girl Torn Between Two Careers (Rachel Carson); Volume 5: The Woman Who Hid the Moon (Aglaonike); The Man Who Stayed in His House for Ten Years (Al-Haytham); The Boy Who Was Curious All His Life (Shen Kuo); The Grumpy Nun Who Was Forbidden to Sing (Hildegard of Bingen); The Boy Who Sorted Out the Living World (Carl Linneaus); Volume 6: The Boy Who Didn't Listen to His Teacher (Max Planck); How a Compass Inspired a Genius (Albert Einstein); The Boy Secretly Reading a Book Behind His School Desk (Wolfgang Pauli); The Student Whose Schools Kept Closing (T D Lee); The Boy Who Had a Dispute with His Father (John von Neumann); Volume 7: The Boy Who Found Different Ways of Thinking (Jean Piaget); The Woman Who Taught Us Love and Remembrance (Artemisia); The Mother with Six Boys and Six Girls (Lillian Gilbreth); The Girl Born in the Shadow of the Moon God (Enheduanna); The Explorer Girl Who Travelled Far Without Leaving Home (Alice Hamilton); Volume 8: The Girl Who Found Her Sisters on the Other Side of the World (Harriet Noyes); The First Woman Doctor in History (Merit Ptah); The Girl Who Had to Hide Behind a Man's Name (Sophie Germain); The Murderous Princess Who Found Salvation (Anna of Byzantium); The Bug Hunter Who Dreamed of the Jungle (Maria Merian); Volume 9: The Boy Who Combined a Bike and a Train to Invent the Car (Karl Benz); The Failed Doctor Who Sparked an Idea (John Walker); The Woman to Thank If You Like Chocolate (Mary the Alchemist); The Man in the Burning House (Garrett Morgan); The Boy Who Lost His Chance but Got It Back (Gregorio Zara); Volume 10: The Strange Adventures of Doctor Poison (F F Runge); The Young Woman Who Was Forgotten (Rosalind Franklin); The Girl in the Chamber of Corpses (Alessandra Giliani); The Farm Girl Who Made Your Milk Safe (Alice Evans); A Tasty Treat Found by Accident (Frank Epperson); Volume 11: The Boy Who Decoded the Dance of the Stars (Jeremiah Horrocks); The Poet-Scientist Who Detected an Earthquake (Zhang Heng); The Farm Boy Who Saw the Galaxies Flying Away (Vesto Slipher); The Girl Who Named the Stars in the Sky (Annie Jump Cannon); The Boy Who Understood Einstein (Michio Kaku); Volume 12: The Girl at the Back of the Boys-Only Classroom (Amalie Emmy Noether); The True Story of the Philosopher's Stone (Jabir Ibn Hayyan); The Bullied Boy Who Fought Back (Isaac Newton); The Teenager Who Saw the Light (Galileo Galilei); What We Learn From the Strange Tale of the Human Computer (Shakuntala Devi);