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Innovators: 16 Visionary Scientists and Their Struggle for Recognition-From Galileo to Barbara McClintock and Rachel Carson

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Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world-and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them

Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don't receive widespread recognition until decades later, sometimes after their author's death. Nobel Prize-winner Max Planck, whose black-body radiation law established the discipline of quantum mechanics, stated this as what has become known as Planck's principle, commonly summarized as "Science progresses one...