This list currently includes biology, astronomy, chemistry, and physics biographies. I will add to it as I have time.

100

• Galen and the Gateway to Medicine by Jeanne Bendick (131 pp.) 129-216

1500

• Copernicus by Henry Thomas (192 pp. Messner) 1473-1543
• Dance of the Planets: The Universe of Nicolaus Copernicus by Nancy Veglahn (63 pp.) 1473-1543
• Doctor Paracelsus by Sidney Rosen (214 pp.) 1493-1541
• Mauve: How One Man Invented a Color that Changed the World by Simon Garfield (240 pp.) 1558-1602

1600

• William Harvey and the Discovery of the Circulation of the Blood by Thomas Henry Huxley (18 pp.) 1578-1657
• Johannes Kepler and Planetary Motion by David C. Knight (194 pp.) 1571-1630
• Galileo and the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen (212 pp.) 1564-1642
• Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel (432 pp) 1564-1642
• Robert Boyle: Founder of Modern Chemistry by Harry Sootin (pp.) 1627-1691
• Isaac Newton by Harry Sootin (191 pp.) 1642-1727

1700

• Beloved Botanist: The Story of Carl Linnaeus by Adrien Stoutenburg (192 pp.) 1707-1778
• The Invention of Air by Steven Johnson (276 pp.) 1733-1804
• The Chemist Who Lost His Head, The Story of Antoine Laurent Lavoisier by Vivian Grey (112 pp.) 1743-1794
• Antoine Lavoisier: Scientist and Citizen by Sarah R. Riedman (192 pp.) 1743-1794
• Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel (208 pp.) 1693-1776
• The Man Who Transformed the World: James Watt by William D. Crane (179 pp.) 1736-1819
• Alessandro Volta and the Electric Battery by Bern Dibner (110 pp.) 1745-1827
• Dr. Jenner and the Speckled Monster: The Search for the Smallpox Vaccine by Albert Marrin

1800

• The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin 1809-1882
• We Were There with Charles Darwin on the H.M.S. Beagle by Philip Eisenberg (178 pp.) 1809-1882
• Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics by Simon Mawer (176 pp.) 1822-1884
• Louis Pasteur by Laura Wood (217 pp. Messner) 1822-1895
• Louis Pasteur: Founder of Microbiology by Mary June Burton (197 pp.) 1822-1895
• The Insect Man by Eleanor Doorly (188 pgs, Fabre) 1823–1915
• King’s Astronomer by Deborah Crawford (William Herschel, 191 pp. Messner) 1738-1822
• Sweeper of the Stars by Francis Higgins (Caroline Herschel, 127 pp.) 1750-1848
• America’s First Woman Astronomer, Maria Mitchell by Rachel Baker and Joanna Baker Merlen (192 pp. Messner) 1818-1889
• Mendeleyev and His Periodic Table by Robin McKown (191 pp.) 1834-1907
• Michael Faraday, Father of Electronics by Charles Ludwig (224 pp.) 1791-1867
• Michael Faraday: From Errand Boy to Master Physicist by Harry Sootin (180 pp.) 1791-1867
• The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell by Basil Mahon (256 pp.) 1831–1879
• The Little Giant of Schenectady: A Story of Charles Steinmetz by Dorothy Markey (191 pp.) 1865-1923
• Steinmetz: Maker of Lightning by Sigmund Lavine (241 pp.) 1865-1923
• Nikola Tesla: Giant of Electricity by Helen B. Walters (169 pp.) 1856-1943
• Electrical Genius: Nikola Tesla by Arthur J. Beckhard (186 pp.) 1856-1943
• Giant of the Atom: Ernest Rutherford by Robin McKown (185 pp.) 1871-1937
• Marconi: Pioneer of Radio by Douglas Coe (256 pp.) 1874-1937
• Marconi: Father of Radio by David Gunston (124 pp.) 1874-1937
• Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen and the Discovery of X-Rays by Bern Dibner (128 pp.) 1845-1923
• Discoverer of X-Ray: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen by Arnulf Esterer (186 pp.) 1845-1923
• Samuel Morse and the Electronic Age by Wilma Pitchford Hays (112 pp.)

1900

• Dr. George Washington Carver by Shirley Graham and George Lipscomb (248 pp. Messner) 1861-1943
• Sea and Earth: The Life of Rachel Carson by Philip Sterling (197 pp.) 1907-1964
• The Frog Scientist by Pamela S. Turner (gr. 5-9, 64 pp.) 1967-
• Robert Goddard Trail Blazer To The Stars by Charles Daugherty 1882-1945
• Robert Goddard: Space Pioneer by Anne Perkins Dewey (154 pp.) 1882-1945
• The Radium Woman by Eleanor Doorly (196 pp.) 1867-1934
• Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood by Oliver Sacks (352 pp.) 1933-2015
• Albert Einstein and the Theory of Relativity by Robert Cwiklik (192 pp.)
• Ordinary Genius: The Story of Albert Einstein by Stephanie McPherson (96 pp.)
• The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind: Creating Currents of Electricity and Hope by William Kamkwamba (270 pp.)
• The Radar Man: The Story of Sir Robert Watson-Watt by John Rowland (143 pp.)
• Father of Supersonic Flight: Theodor von Karman by D. S. Halacy, Jr. (185 pp.) 1881-1963
• Wernher von Braun by Heather M. David (240 pp.) 1912-1977
• Niels Bohr: The Man Who Mapped the Atom by Robert Silverberg (185 pp.) 1885-1962
• Enrico Fermi: Father of Atomic Power by Sam and Beryl Epstein (95 pp.) 1901-1954