The Science Wall of Honor at the University of Bridgeport has provided the inspiration for titling this new series of science biographies. The monu ment honors 25 of the most important Immortals of Science’ by displaying their names on a new sei ence building. These 25 men were chosen in a worldwide poll of more than 1100 qualified scientific electors.
Aimed primarily at the reader who has reached the stage in life where he is ‘impatient to be grown up and do important things himself, the Immox-TALS OF SCIENCE Biographies are both informative and inspirational. The reader is given a clear con-cept of the period when the particular scientist lived; his early life, education, and his quest for new facts is told in such a manner that the reader him-self experiences the entire process. Sufficient is told of the subject’s scientific accomplishments to pro-vide the inquiring mind with a good knowledge of the history of science and this alone makes the series unique. Too many biographies of scientists for young people seem more concerned with incon-sequential details than in telling the all-important scientific story. Indeed, the history of science is an indispensable segment of the history of all man kind’s civilization
These biographies are recommended for school libraries and for the children’s departments of pub-lic libraries. They are admirably suited for home library collections. All are well-indexed; some con-tain chronological summaries and glossaries of technical terms.