Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

Birds of Arabia (Meinertzhagen)

Black, Davidson

black holes

Blackett, Patrick

Blind Watchmaker, The (Dawkins)

Bodanis, David

Bogdanov, Igor and Grickha

Bohr, Niels

Bolzmann, Ludwig

Bonnichsen, Bill

Bose, S. N.

Bouguer, Pierre

Bowler, Jim

Boyle, Robert

Brace, C. Loring

Brand, Hennig

Brave New World (Huxley)

Briggs, Derek

Britain: geology, popularity of; learned societies; nitrous oxide, popularity of; plant collecting; sea exploration, HMS Challenger ; transits of Venus expeditions

Brock, Thomas and Louise

Broom, Robert

Brown, Guy

Brown, Harrison

Brown, Robert

Brownian motion

Brunhes, Bernard

Bryce, David

Buckland, William

Buffon, Comte de (Leclerc)

Cadbury, Deborah

caissons

calculus

cancer

Cannon, Annie Jump

carbon

carbon dioxide; Dover, white cliffs, and; inflated levels in atmosphere; marine organisms and

Carolina parakeet

Cassini, Giovanni and Jacques

Caster, K. E.

Cavendish, Henry

Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge University

Cavendish, William

cells; ATP; brain; cancer; chromosomes in; communication between; death; discovery of; DNA and replication of; lifespan,; liver; microscopic examination, first; mitochondria; nucleus; number in a human being; protein in; replacement; sponge, rebuilding; structure and activity of; types, variety

Celsius, Anders

CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Chadwick, James

Chambers, Robert

Chapman, Clark

Chappe, Jean

Charpentier, Jean de

chemistry; atomic number; atomic weight; Avogadro’s number; conventions and formulas,; Dalton and; elements; organic and inorganic; periodic table; radioactivity, discovery of; societies; symbols and abbreviations

chlorine

chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)

Christiansen, Bob

Christy, James

Cod (Kurlansky)

cod fish

Comet (Sagan)

comets: Kuiper belt and; long-period; Shoemaker-Levy 9, and impact on Jupiter; speed of. See also specific comets

Coming of Age in the Milky Way (Ferris)

Compston, Bill

Conard, Henry S.

convection

Conway Morris, Simon

Cook, James

Coon, Carleton

Cope, Edward Drinker

Coriolis effect

cosmic background radiation

Cosmos (Sagan)

Cox, David

Cox, Peter

Crab Nebula

Crampton, Henry Edward

Crick, Francis

Croll, James

Cropper, William H.

Crouch, Henry

Crowther, J. G.

Crucible of Creation, The (Conway Morris)

Crystal Palace, London; Park

Curie, Marie

Curie, Pierre

Cuvier, Georges

Dalton, John

Daly, Reginald

dark energy (vacuum energy, quintessence)

dark matter; DUNNOS; MACHOs; WIMPs

Dart, Raymond

Darwin, Charles

Davies, Paul

Davy, Humphry

Dawkins, Richard

de Duve, Christian

de Vaucouleurs, Gérard

de Vries, Hugo

DeMoivre, Abraham

Denver, Colorado, mystery of

Descartes, René

Descent of Man, The (Darwin)

Diamond, Jared

diamonds

Dicke, Robert

Dickinson, Matt

dinosaurs: Anchisaurus; appearance of; Archaeopteryx; discovery of; bones, American sites for finding; Crystal Palace Park, London; Diplodocus; extinction; fossils, England; fossils, paucity of record; Hadrosaur; Hylaeosaurus; identification of; iguanodon Megalosaurus; museum fakes; ornithischians and saurischians; Owen coins the word; ranges of, northern; tracks, Massachusetts; tyrannosaurus rex

Diversity of Life, The (Wilson)

Dixon, Jeremiah

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid); amount in cells; cells and; chemical components; coding of; cosmic rays, effect of; discovery of; durability; fingerprinting; hox genes and; Human Genome Project; irradiated; life, creation of and; non-coding; replication; RNA and; polymerase chain reaction; proteins, creation of and; reproduction dependent on; SNP (snip); structure and discovery of double helix

dodo

Doppler, Johann Christian

Doppler shift

Doss, Paul

Double Helix, The (Watson)

Drake, Frank

Dreams of a Final Theory (Weinberg)

Drury, Stephen

Dubois, Marie Eugene .

Dyson, Freeman

E=mc 2 (Bodanis)

Earth: age of; Archaean period; Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska; asteroid craters and impact; atmosphere, creation of; atmosphere and weather; auroras; average species longevity; baked apple theory; birth of; birth of the Moon; conditions for life; cores; cosmic dust, accumulation; crust, early burst theory; Cryogenian age (Snowball Earth); Denver, mystery of; distance from surface to center; earthquakes; extinctions, major and minor; geology of; heat of interior; hydrosphere, see also oceans; ice ages; impact of asteroid or comet; interior of; land bridge theory; life, creation of on; magnetism; magnetism, reversal of; measuring circumference; measuring distance from the Sun; measuring mass or weight; Moon’s distance from, measuring; Moon’s importance; movement of surface, see also plate tectonics; nearest stars; ocean floor; orbit; ozone layer; planets in proximity to; rotation, speed of; shape, controversy over; size; temperature; Van Allen belts; volcanoes

Earth, The (Jeffreys)

earthquakes; commonality of; intraplate quakes; Kobe; Lisbon, Portugal; New Madrid, Missouri; Prince William Sound, Alaska; Richter scale; San Andreas Fault; Tetons; Tokyo; Yellowstone National Park

Earth’s Shifting Crust (Hapgood)

earthworms

Ebbing, Darrell

ebola virus

Eddington, Sir Arthur

Eight Little Piggies (Gould)

Einstein, Albert; cosmological constant; equation, E = mc 2; general theory of relativity; grand unified theory; quantum theory and; special theory of relativity

élan vital

electricity, experiments with

electrolysis

electromagnetism

electron; microscope; spin resonance (dating method); thermoluminescence (dating method); Uncertainty Principle

elements: abundance, order of; discovery of; life, necessary for; naming; number of

Elliott, Charles

Ellis, Len

Elwin, Whitwell

encephalitis lethargica

energy: quantum theory and; radioactive decay and mass into energy; special theory of relativity. See also Einstein; Albert; Newton, Isaac

entropy

Erwin, Terry

Essay on the Principle of Population (Malthus)

Eternal Frontier (Flannery)

ether

Evans, Robert

Everest, Mount

evolution. See Darwin, Charles; humans; life

Exclusion Principle

Extinct Humans (Tattersall amp; Schwartz)

extinction of species; asteroid or comet impact (impact theory); average lifespan of a species; causes, hypothetical; cooling of Earth and; Cretaceous; Devonian; dinosaurs; human-caused; ice ages and; minor kill-offs; Ordovician; Permian extinction; plate tectonics and; sea creatures; solar flares theory; survivors; Triassic; volcanic eruptions and

Fahrenheit, Daniel Gabriel

Fermi, Enrico

Ferris, Timothy

Feynman, Richard

fish, depletion of

Fisher, Osmond

fission

FitzRoy, Robert

Flannery, Tim

fluorescent light

Forbes, Edward

Fornax (constellation)

Fortey, Richard

fossils; Ashfall Fossil Beds, Nebraska; Burgess Shale; Cambrian explosion and; cladistics; conditions that create; evidence for age of the Earth; evolution, lack of evidence for; extinctions, lack of fossil record; gathering, England; Hell Creek, Montana; human, scarcity of; Mantell’s collection; marine; microbes; plate tectonics and; Precambrian (Ediacaran); Smith’s map of British rock strata; trilobites