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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Emil Theodor Kocher, Karl Schenk, Adolf Wölfli, Albrecht Von Haller, Hermann Kutter, Daniel Albert Wyttenbach, Gottfried Mind, Karl Ludwig Von Haller, Ferdinand Hodler, John E. Smith, Teddy Stauffer, Harald Szeemann, Hans Albert Einstein, Philipp Albert Stapfer, Albert Lindegger, Arnold Klebs, Marc Hodler, Philipp Emanuel Von Fellenberg, Gottfried Von Einem, Arnold Käch, Niklaus Manuel, Oscar Collodo, Hans Urwyler, Yangzom Brauen, Tanja Frieden, Charles Victor de Bonstetten, Kaspar Brunner, Paul Laciga, Adrian Von Bubenberg, Aleksandar Mitreski, Michel Kratochvil, Peter Grütter, Conrad Justinger, Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Hermann Sahli, Ulrich Boner, Roland Zoss, Linda Geiser, Carl Adolf Otth, Johann David Wyss, Otto Ackermann, Walter Breisky, Ferhat Çökmüş, Friedrich Traffelet, Raphael Urweider, Viktor Surbek, Kurt Marti, Johann Rudolf Wyss, Heinz Von Allmen, Albrecht Von Nürnberg, Niklaus Dachselhofer, Walther Aeschbacher. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Albrecht von Haller (October 16, 1708 December 12, 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist and poet. He was born of an old Swiss family at Berne. Prevented by long-continued ill-health from taking part in boyish sports, he had the more opportunity for the development of his precocious mind. At the age of four, it is said, he used to read and expound the Bible to his fathers servants; before he was ten he had sketched a Chaldee grammar, prepared a Greek and a Hebrew vocabulary, compiled a collection of two thousand biographies of famous men and women on the model of the great works of Bayle and Moréri, and written in Latin verse a satire on his tutor, who had warned him against a too great excursiveness. When still hardly fifteen he was already the author of numerous metrical translat...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=362359 ... Read more

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Chapters: Albert Einstein, Henry Dunant, Felix Bloch, Richard R. Ernst, Emil Theodor Kocher, Élie Ducommun, International Committee of the Red Cross, Vladimir Prelog, Alfred Werner, Karl Alexander Müller, Werner Arber, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Edmond H. Fischer, Charles Albert Gobat, Carl Spitteler, Paul Karrer, Kurt Wüthrich, Rolf M. Zinkernagel, Tadeus Reichstein, Heinrich Rohrer, Paul Hermann Müller, Walter Rudolf Hess. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 139. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Albert Einstein (pronounced ; German: ; 14 March 187918 April 1955) was a theoretical physicist, philosopher and author who is widely regarded as one of the most influential and best known scientists and intellectuals of all time. He is often regarded as the father of modern physics. He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect." His many contributions to physics include the special and general theories of relativity, the founding of relativistic cosmology, the first post-Newtonian expansion, explaining the perihelion advance of Mercury, prediction of the deflection of light by gravity and gravitational lensing, the first fluctuation dissipation theorem which explained the Brownian movement of molecules, the photon theory and wave-particle duality, the quantum theory of atomic motion in solids, the zero-point energy concept, the semiclassical version of the Schrödinger equation, and the quantum theory of a monatomic gas which predicted BoseEinstein condensation. Einstein published more than 300 scientific and over 150 non-scientific works. Einstein additionally wrote and commentated prolifically on numerous philosophical and political subjects. Einstein at the age of 4. His father sh...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=736 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jacob Bernoulli, Emil Theodor Kocher, Kenneth Hsu, Edward Kofler, Catherine Kousmine, Alfred Métraux, Marie-Louise Von Franz, Amos Bairoch, Gottfried Schatz, Laurent Keller, Ignaz Venetz, Carl Alfred Meier, Johann Caspar Horner, Jean-Louis Calandrini, Frederick Pearson Treadwell, Charles Weissmann, Bernhard Joos, Thomas Conrad Von Baldenstein, Albert Samuel Gatschet, Ambros Uchtenhagen, Hans Conrad Escher Von Der Linth, Louis Albert Necker. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 89. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kenneth J. Hsu (simplified Chinese: ; traditional Chinese: ; pinyin: X Jìnghuá) Ph.D, M.A., born 28 June 1929, is a Swiss scientist, geologist, paleoclimatologist, oceanographer, government advisor, author, inventor and entrepreneur who was born in Nanjing, China. Education Hsu (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.) studied at the Chinese National Central University (later renamed Nanjing University in mainland China and reinstated in Taiwan) (B.Sc. 1948), and came to the United States in 1948 where he studied at Ohio State University (M.A., 1950), and at University of California, Los Angeles, where he received his Ph.D in 1953. Professional life Hsu worked as a petroleum geologist and environmental engineer for the Shell Development Corporation (Houston), now called Shell Oil Company, between 1954 and 1963. He also taught at U.S. universities (196367), before becoming Chairman of the Experimental Geology Department at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zürich), in 1967, where he was Emeritus Professor of Geology until 1994. Hsu started his business career after his retirement from teaching. Professorships ... Read more