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The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Physics for Kids features biographies of 25 leading physicists, past and present, accompanied by accessible, hands-on experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of physics alive.
List of contents
INTRODUCTION
LAB 1 William Gilbert b. 1544 ELECTRICITY
LAB 2 Galileo Galilei b. 1564 PENDULUMS
LAB 3 Sir Isaac Newton b. 1643 GRAVITY AND PRISMS
LAB 4 Laura Bassi b. 1711 AIR AND ELECTRICITY
LAB 5 Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) b. 1753 THERMODYNAMICS
LAB 6 Thomas Young b. 1773 WAVE THEORY
LAB 7 Augustin-Jean Fresnel b. 1788 LIGHT AND COLOR
LAB 8 Michael Faraday b. 1791 ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION
LAB 9 Pierre Curie b. 1859 PIEZOELECTRICITY
LAB 10 Lise Meitner b. 1878 NUCLEAR FISSION
LAB 11 Albert Einstein b. 1879 RELATIVITY
LAB 12 Katharine Burr Blodgett b. 1898 FILMS
LAB 13 Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin b. 1900 STAR MATERIAL
LAB 14 Mary Golda Ross b. 1908 AEROSPACE ENGINEERING
LAB 15 Luis Walter Alvarez b. 1911 BUBBLE CHAMBER
LAB 16 Ruby Payne-Scott b. 1912 SUNSPOTS
LAB 17 Chien-Shiung Wu b. 1912 SYMMETRY
LAB 18 Warren M. Washington b. 1936 ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE
LAB 19 Stephen Hawking b. 1942 BLACK HOLES
LAB 20 Christine Darden b. 1942 AIRCRAFT WING DESIGN
LAB 21 Jocelyn Bell Burnell b. 1943 PULSARS
LAB 22 Valerie L. Thomas b. 1943 ILLUSION TRANSMITTER
LAB 23 Nadya Mason b. 1972 CONDUCTIVITY/CARBON
LAB 24 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein b. 1982 COSMOLOGY
LAB 25 Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil b. 1986 GALAXIES
GLOSSARY
REFERENCES AND RESOURCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER
ABOUT THE ILLUSTRATOR
INDEX
About the author
Liz Lee Heinecke has loved science since she was old enough to inspect her first butterfly.
After working in molecular biology research for ten years and getting her master’s degree, she left the lab to kick off a new chapter in her life as a stay-at-home mom. Soon she found herself sharing her love of science with her three kids as they grew, journaling their science adventures on her KitchenPantryScientist website.
Her desire to spread her enthusiasm for science to others soon led to a regular segment on her local NBC affiliate, an opportunity to serve as an Earth Ambassador for NASA, and the creation of an iPhone app, with the goal of making it simple for parents to do science with kids of all ages, and for kids to experiment safely on their own.
You can find her at home in Minnesota, wrangling her kids, writing for her website, updating the KidScience app, teaching microbiology to nursing students, singing, playing banjo, painting, running, and doing almost anything else to avoid housework.
Liz graduated from Luther College and received her master’s degree in bacteriology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
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The Kitchen Pantry Scientist: Physics for Kids features biographies of 25 leading physicists, past and present, accompanied by accessible, hands-on experiments and activities to bring the history and principles of physics alive.
