Scientists Audio & Video

J. Robert Oppenheimer is one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb for his country in a time of war and who later found himself confronting the moral consequences of scientific progress.

With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife...

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, physicist, mechanical engineer, electrical engineer, and futurist.

Great Biographies in Time explores the lives of some of the most intriguing figures in history.

From the bestselling author of "Benjamin Franklin" comes the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available--a fully realized portrait of this extraordinary human being and great genius.

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages? the visitor from Harvard asked...

By identifying the structure of DNA, the molecule of life, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won themselves a Nobel Prize....

From the time Jane Goodall was a girl, she dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Her earliest fascination with animals inspired her...

In this lucid and brilliant book, one of the best popularizers of science illuminates one of science's most complex concepts.

Did you know that for 21 years Darwin kept his theory of evolution secret?