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Who was?Swaby, Rachel.
Summary: "Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known"--Page 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 500 SWACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom SwabyFabiny, Sarah
Summary: Presents the life and accomplishments of the American biologist, whose influential work, "The Silent Spring," inspired worldwide conservation movements.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CARO'Brien, Stacey.
Summary: Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoir "Marley & Me" a runaway bestseller, biologist and owl expert O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn owl--and their astonishing and unprecedented 19-year life together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2009
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598.97 OBRStone, Tanya Lee
Summary: "An inspiring nonfiction picture book about Rosalind Franklin, the groundbreaking chemist who helped discover the structure of DNA, by the award-winning, bestselling author of Who Says Women Can't Be Doctors? and Elizabeth Leads the Way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Christy Ottaviano Books, Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J 921 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 FRAO'Brien, Stacey.
Summary: Written with the same heartwarming sentiment that made the memoir "Marley & Me" a runaway bestseller, biologist and owl expert O'Brien chronicles her rescue of an adorable, abandoned baby barn owl--and their astonishing and unprecedented 19-year life together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2008
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 598.9 OBRNivola, Claire A.
Summary: A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Foster Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 EARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio EarleStowe, Hannah
Summary: "As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tin House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOWE, HANNAH STOFowler, Shannon Leone
Summary: "From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she took—through war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyond—to find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand."--Amazon.com
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOWLER, SHANNON LEONE FOWWidder, Edith
Summary: "Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021