347
Hubble, Edwin 127, 200, 201, 236–41,
242, 243, 250
Huffman, Don 320
Huggins, William 127, 270
human genome 15, 268–69, 271, 278,
283, 324, 325
Humason, Milton 241
Humboldt, Alexander von 108, 109,
130–35, 315
hurricanes 153
Hutton, James 55, 73, 96–101, 146
Huxley, T. H. 109, 149, 159, 172–73
Huygens, Christiaan 32, 50–51, 110, 136
Hyatt, John 140, 141
hydrocarbons 141, 163–65, 256–58
hydrogen 72, 76, 78–79, 82, 162–63,
213, 228, 230, 234, 270, 292, 304IJ
Ibn Khaldun 23
Ibn Sahl 28
Ibn Sina 42, 116, 331
ice ages 108, 109, 129
imprinting 249
India, ancient 19
infection 157, 158, 159, 196–97, 323
infrared 87, 88, 89, 108, 203, 251
Ingenhousz, Jan 72, 73, 85
inheritance 168–71, 200, 224–25, 249,
271, 278, 279, 322, 324
inorganic chemicals 108, 124, 125
insects 33, 53, 73, 104
interference 111
ionic bonding 119, 258–59
ions 119, 258, 259
isomers 125, 164
isotopes 193–95, 263, 264, 275
Ivanovsky, Dmitri 196, 197
Jabir Ibn Hayyan (Geber) 112, 331
Jablonka, Eva 118
Janssen, Hans and Zacharius 54
Jeans, Sir James 204, 205
Jeffreys, Harold 188, 189
Jones, David 320
Jönsson, Claus 110, 111
Jordan, Pascual 230, 234, 246
Joule, James 76, 138
Julia, Gaston 316
Jupiter 32, 36, 39, 43, 58–59, 127, 136
Jurassic period 116–17, 172gases 14, 49, 274, 275
isolation of 72, 76, 78–79, 82–3
kinetic theory of 46, 49, 72, 139
Gassendi, Pierre 52
gauge bosons 272, 292, 295, 306,
307
Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis 162
Geiger, Hans 211
Gell-Mann, Murray 269, 293, 302–07
gene therapy 15, 283, 322–3
general relativity 220–21, 242–3, 247,
269, 313
genes 170, 171, 224, 225, 249, 271,
278–83, 318–19
horizontal transfer 268, 269, 318–19
genetic engineering 283, 319
genetic recombination 268, 271
genetics 60, 109, 118, 149, 168–71,
224–25, 249, 268, 271, 278–83, 301,
318–19, 326
genome sequences 15, 271, 278, 283,
319, 324, 325
geocentrism 13, 14, 32, 36, 40, 41
geography 22
geology 15, 33, 44, 55, 73, 96–101, 115,
188–89, 223
germs 157, 159, 196
Gibson, Reginald 140
Gilbert, William 14, 32, 44 , 120
glaciation 128–29
Glashow, Sheldon 268, 272, 292–93
global warming 135, 294–95
gluons 299, 306, 307
Goldstein, Eugen 187
Gondwanaland 223
Gosling, Raymond 281
Gould, John 146
Gould, Stephen Jay 144, 339
gravitational lensing 220, 221
gravity 14, 24, 33, 41, 43, 62–69, 73,
88–89, 102, 103, 183, 200, 214–21,
248, 269, 270, 273, 292, 293, 306,
310, 311, 313, 314
Greeks, ancient 12, 13, 18, 20–22,
24–25, 60, 132, 292
Greenberg, Oscar 272
Greenblatt, Richard 288
greenhouse effect/gases 294–95, 315
Gregorian calendar reform 39
Gregory, James 52
Griffith, Frederick 318–19
Grosseteste, Robert 28
Guericke, Otto von 46, 47–48
Gulf Stream 72, 73, 81
Guth, Alan 242
H
Haber, Fritz 336
Hadley, George 72, 73, 80 , 126
hadrons 304, 306, 307, 310
Haeckel, Ernst 74, 132, 315
Hahn, Otto 208, 262–63
Haldane, J. B. S. 274, 275
Hales, Stephen 72, 333
half-life, radioactive 194
Halley, Edmond 12, 67, 68, 80, 102, 103
Han, Moo-Young 272
Harrison, John 59
Harvey, William 14, 53, 157, 331
Hawking, Stephen 88, 89, 269, 314
Hawkins, B. Waterhouse 116, 117
heat 15, 76–77, 79, 122–23, 138
heat death 245, 338
Heaviside, Oliver 185
Heisenberg, Werner 15, 200, 201, 228,
230, 232, 234–35, 246, 272, 284, 285
heliocentrism 14, 18, 32, 38–39, 40, 41,
43, 52, 64
helium 79, 270, 292
Helmholtz, Hermann von 138, 270
Helmont, Jan Baptista von 85, 156–57
Hennig, Willi 74, 75
Henry, Joseph 120, 121, 152
heredity see inheritance
Herman, Robert 245
Hero 18
Herodotus 20, 132
Herschel, William 68, 86–87, 108
Hertz, Heinrich 184–85, 216
Hertzsprung, Ejnar 240
Hess, Harry 222
Hewish, Anthony 248
Higgs, Peter 269, 293, 298–99
Higgs boson 13, 269, 298–99, 304, 305,
306, 307
Hilbert, David 252
Hipparchus 19, 20, 26
Hiroshima 265
histones 279
Hittorf, Johann 186–87
Holmes, Arthur 101, 222
Hooke, Robert 14, 33, 45, 48, 50, 54 , 56,
57, 67–68, 69
Hooker, Joseph 144, 274
horizontal gene transfer (HGT) 318–19
Horrocks, Jeremiah 32, 40, 52
Hoyle, Fred 244, 268, 270INDEX