Mary Somerville’s writings, across a range of disciplines – maths, astronomy, botany, geography – became essential reading for those learning science, and helped to define what a scientist was in the ...

Sylvy Kornberg with her husband, Arthur Kornberg, at his Stanford University lab on the day he won the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1959. COURTESY OF KENNETH KORNBERG T his April, The ...

Here's another biography of a scientist, this time Professor Stephen Hawking. Often biographies are about people who are famous because of something they have done. Scientists, artists ...