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Heroes of progress : 65 people who changed the world / by Alexander C.R. Hammond.

Hammond, Alexander C. R., author.

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ISBN: 9781952223679
Physical Description: 299 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Publisher: Washington, DC : Cato Institute, [2024]
Copyright: ©2024
Note: Foreword by Steven Pinker --Cover.
Note: Includes discussion questions for book clubs and classrooms.
Bibliography, etc.: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-286) and index.
Formatted Contents: Johannes Gutenberg -- Desiderius Erasmus -- Sir John Harington -- Mary Astell and Mary Wollstonecraft -- James Watt -- Cesare Beccaria -- Alessandro Volta -- Jeremy Bentham -- Edward Jenner -- James Madison -- William Wilberforce -- Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace -- Richard Cobden -- John Stuart Mill -- John Snow -- Frederick Douglass -- Louis Pasteur -- Joseph Lister -- Wilhelm Röntgen -- Kate Sheppard -- Ronald Ross -- Karl Landsteiner and Richard Lewisohn -- Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch -- Willis Haviland Carrier -- Alexander Fleming -- Lucy Wills -- Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering -- Abel Wolman and Linn Enslow -- Frederick Banting and Charles Best -- Frederick McKinley Jones -- Paul Hermann Müller -- Enrico Fermi -- George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion -- Virginia Apgar -- Willem Kolff -- Alan Turing -- Wilson Greatbatch -- Malcom McLean -- Norman Borlaug -- Jonas Salk -- Benjamin Rubin -- James Elam and Peter Safar -- Maurice Hilleman -- Charles Dotter and Andreas Grüntzig -- Vasili Arkhipov -- Raymond Damadian, Paul Lauterbur, and Peter Mansfield -- Yuan Longping -- Tu Youyou -- Françoise Barré-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier -- David Nalin -- Alfred Sommer -- Bill Gates.