This page lists some of the scientists' biographies carried in RTC Library.
If you're not sure what you need, or how to begin, come in to RTC Library, call us at (425) 235-2331, or email us at librarian@RTC.edu. We'll be glad to help.
Linnaeus: The Complete Naturalist / By Wilfrid Blunt. Call Number: 508.092 BLUNT 2001
Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the secrets of metamorphosis / By Maria Merian. Call Number: 508.092 TODD-K 2007
Heretic in Darwin’s Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. Call Number: 508.092 SLOTTEN 2004
The Forgotten Genius :The Biography of Robert Hook, 1635-1703 / By Stephen Inwood. Call Number: 509.2 INWOOD 2005
The Curious Life of Robert Hooke / By Lisa Jardine. Call Number: 509.2 JARDINE 2005
Lives of a Biologist / By John Tyler Bonner. Call Number: 570.92 BONNER 2002
The Snoring Bird: My Family's Journey Through a Century of Biology / By Bernd Heinrich. Call Number: 570.92 HEINRIC 2008
What Mad Pursuit / By Francis Crick. Call Number: 570.92 CRICK 1988
A to Z of Biologists / By Lisa Yount. Call Number: 570.922 YOUNT 2003
Cell Scientists: From Leeuwenhoek to Fuchs / By Kimberly Fekany Lee. Call Number: 571.6092 LEE-K 2009
Of Molecules and Men / By Francis Crick. Call Number: 572.8 CRICK 2004
Ahead of the Curve: David Baltimore’s Life in Science / By Shane Crotty. Call Number: 572.8092 CROTTY 2001
Max Perutz and the Secrets of Life / By Georgina Ferry. Call Number: 572.8092 FERRY 2007
James Watson: Solving the Mystery of DNA / By Janet Hamilton. Call Number: 572.8092 HAMILTO 2004
Rosalind Franklin and the Structure of Life / By Jane Polcovar. Call Number: 572.8092 POLCOVA 2006
The Double Helix / By James Watson. Call Number: 572.86092 WATSON 1997
Avoid Boring People / By James D. Watson. Call Number: 572.8092 WATSON 2007
DNA: The Secret of Life / By James D. Watson. Call Number: 572.86 WATSON 2003
Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA / By Brenda Maddox. Call Number: 572.86092 MADDOX 2003
Rosalind Franklin and DNA / By Anne Sayre. Call Number: 572.86092 SAYRE 2000
Coming To Life / By Christiane Nusslein-Volhard. Call Number: 576.5 NUSSLEI 2008
Making Genes, Making Waves / By Jon Beckwith. Call Number: 576.5092 BECKWIT 2002
The Tangled Field: Barbara McClintock’s Search for the Patterns of Genetic Control / By Nathaniel C. Comfort. Call Number: 576.5092 COMFORT 2001
A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of Barbara McClintock / Evelyn Fox Keller. Call Number: 576.5092 KELLER 2003
Barbara McClintock: Genius of Genetics / By Ray Spangenburg and Diane Kit Moser. Call Number: 576.5092 PASACH 2006
Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code / By Matt Ridley. Call Number: 576.5092 RIDLEY 2006
A Life Decoded / By J. Craig Venter. Call Number: 576.5092 VENTER 2007
Barbara McClintock: Pioneering Geneticist / By Ray Spangenburg. Call Number: 576.5092 SPANGEN 2008
Gregor Mendel and the Discovery of the Gene / By John Bankston. Call Number: 576.52092 BANKSTO 2005
Gregor Mendel: Father of Genetics / By Roger Klare. Call Number: 576.52092 KLARE 1997
Gregor Mendel: Genetics Pioneer / By Lynn Van Gorp. Call Number: 576.52092 VANGORP 2009
Darwin’s Origin of Species / By E.J. Browne. Call Number: 576.82092 BROWNE 2006
Life in the Treetops / By Margaret D. Lowman. Call Number: 577.34092 LOWMAN 2000
Antoni Van Leeuwenhoek: First to See Microscopic Life / By Lisa Yount. Call Number: 578.092 YOUNT 1996
Eugenie Clark: Marine Biologist / By Ronald A. Reis. Call Number: 578.77092 REIS-R 2005
Seafaring Scientist: Alfred Goldsborough Mayor, Pioneer in Marine Biology / By Lester D. Stephens. Call Number: 578.77092 STEPHEN 2006
Felix d'Herelle and the Origins of Molecular Biology / By Ernest Peter Fischer. Call Number: 579.092 SUMMERS 1999
The Man Who Saved Turtles / By Archie Carr. Call Number: 590.92 DAVIS 2007.
Richard Dawkins, How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think / Edited by Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley. Call Number: 591.5092 RICHARD 2006d
Time, Love, Memory / By Seymour Benzer. Call Number: 591.5092 WEINER 1999
Jonas Salk, Microbiologist / By Ronald A. Reis. Call Number: 610.92 REIS-R 2006
This list was updated 9/23/2009. Additional materials may have been added since this list was compiled. Check the RTC Library Catalog at: http://www.RTC.edu/library