Bill Bryson - A short history of nearly everything

Fossils and the History of Life (Simpson)

Fowler, W. A.

France: French Royal Academy of Sciences, Peruvian expedition of 1735; Reign of Terror; transits of Venus expeditions

francium

Franklin, Benjamin

Franklin, Rosalind

Fraser, John

Frayn, Michael

fungi; molds

galaxies: evolving; Hubble and discovery of; Milky Way; NGC1365; number of; number of stars in; recessional velocity

Gamow, George

Gap in Nature, A (Flannery amp; Schouten)

Gehrels, Tom

Geiger, Hans

Gell-Mann, Murray

Genera of North American Plants (Nuttall)

General Chemistry (Ebbing)

genetics: chromosomes; commonality of human; Darwin and; DNA; genes; hox genes; human genome; Human Genome Project; human proteome; mitochondrial DNA; Mendel, Gregor and; Modern Synthesis; Morgan’s fruit fly experiments; sex drive and replicating. See also DNA; humans

Geological Society (London)

geology; baked apple theory; British popularity of; catastrophism vs. uniformitarianism; convection; dating techniques; drilling through Earth’s crust, attempts; divisions of time in (eras, epochs, periods); Earth’s crust, early burst theory; Earth, interior of; Great Devonian Controversy; fossil evidence; fossils, marine; ice ages; iridium layer; isostasy; kimberlite pipes; KT boundary; Moho discontinuity; Mohole drilling; Neptunists vs. Plutonists; opponents to impact theory; plate tectonics; rocks, oldest; rocks, units of; Smith’s map of British rock strata

giant squid

Gibbs, J. Willard

glass

Glicken, Harry

Godfray, G. H.

Gold, Thomas

Goldilocks effect

Gould, John

Gould, Stephen Jay

gravity; general theory of relativity and; gravitons; measuring the mass of Earth and; Newton and laws of; as weak force

Great Chain of Being

Great Devonian Controversy, The (Rudwick)

Great Spanish Flu epidemic

Greer, Frank

Gregory, J. W.

Gribbin, John and Mary

Groves, Colin

Gutenberg, Beno

Guth, Alan

Guyot, Arnold

Habeler, Peter

Hadley, George

Haeckel, Ernst

Haldane, J. B. S.

Haldane, John Scott

Hale-Bopp comet

Hallam, Arthur

Halley, Edmond

Halley’s comet

Hapgood, Charles

Harding, Rosalind

Harrington, Robert

Harrison, John

Hart, Michael

Haughton, Samuel

Hawaii, extinctions on

Hawking, Stephen

Heisenberg, Werner

Helin, Eleanor

helium

Helmholtz, Hermann von

Herschel, William

Hess, Harry

Hessler, Robert

Higgs, Peter

Hildebrand, Alan

Hindenburg

Hipparchus of Nicaea

Historia Generalis Plantarum (Ray)

History and Use of Our Earth’s Chemical Elements, The (Krebs)

Holmes, Arthur

Holmyard, E. J.

Hooke, Robert

Hooker, Joseph

How to Know the Mosses and Liverworts (Conard)

Howard, Luke

Hoyle, Fred

Hubble, Edwin; constrant, Ho ; Law; Space Telescope

humans: Australopithecus ; bacteria and; bacterial infections; bipedalism; brain development and size; cells, number of; classification of; common ancestry of; conception; Cro-Magnon; dehydration; DNA; early, mitochondrial DNA record; early, various bipedal hominids; elements in the body; evolution; fossil record; genetic code; heart; Homo erectus (Java Man); Homo habilis ; Homo sapiens ; ice ages and; immune response; individual differences in; life, conditions amenable to; Lucy; mineral requirements; multiregional hypothesis; Neandertal man; Neandertal tools; origin of the species; Peking Man; pressure upon, effects of; salt and; search for early humans; Solo People; speech; tool-making by early man; toxicity of metals; Trinil skullcap; Turkana skeletons; viral infections; water, needed for life; water, percentage of

Humboldt, Alexander von

Hutton, Charles

Hutton, James

Huxley, Aldous

Huxley, T. H.

Hyakutake comet,

Hyde, Jack

hydrogen; atomic number; Avogadro’s number; combustion and; identification of; most abundant element; Rozier’s experiment

ice ages; Agassiz’s theory; Croll’s theory; Earth’s orbit and; human evolution and; landscape and; Little Ice Age; Messinian Salinity Crisis and; Snowball Earth; survival of life and; warming of; Wisconsian ice sheet

Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth (Playfair)

Inflationary Universe, The (Gamow)

insects; known species; new discoveries; species, estimated

International Cloud Atlas (Howard)

Isaacs, John

isotope geochemistry

Izett, Glenn

Jardine, Lisa

Jarvik, Erik

Java Man

Jefferson, Thomas

Jeffreys, Alec

Jeffreys, Harold

Jenkin, Fleeming

Johanson, Donald

Johnston, David

Joly, John

Joseph, Lawrence

Jupiter: comet Shoemaker-Levy, impact on; distance from Earth

Kaku, Michio

Kelly, Kevin

Kelvin, Lord

Keynes, John Maynard

kimberlite pipes

Kinsey, Alfred C.

Kolbert, Elizabeth

Köppen, Wladimir

Krebs, Robert E., 108

KT boundary; event and extinctions

Kuiper belt

Kuiper, Gerard,

Kunzig, Robert

Kurlansky, Mark

La Condamine, Charles Marie de,

Lalande, Joseph

Large Magellanic Cloud

Lassa fever

Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent

Lavoisier, Madame

Lawrence, Ernest

Le Gentil, Guillaume

lead,; age of Earth and; atmospheric; banning; Clean Air Act of 1970; health hazards; isotope; tetraethyl (TEL, gasoline additive)

Leakey, Louis

Leakey, Mary

Leakey, Meave

Leakey, Richard

Leavitt, Henrietta Swan

Lederman, Leon

Leeuwenhoek, Antoni van

Lehmann, Inge

Leibniz, Gottfried von

Lemaitre, Georges

Leonard, F. C.

Levy, David

Lewin, Roger

Lewis, John S.

Lewis, Meriwether

Lewontin, Richard

Libby, Willard

lichens

life: amino acids; bacteria (microbes); Big Birth,; Cambrian explosion; categorization of; cell theory; change and mutation; chemicals or heavy elements for; classification of,; conditions necessary for; creation in the laboratory; database of living organisms; deep sea, and requirements for; Darwinism; Dimetrodon; diversity of; DNA; earliest, character of; on Earth; on Earth, date of origination; on Earth, evolution of, from anaerobic to oxygen-loving; emergence from the sea; eukaryotes; evolution of; extraterrestrial; extremophiles; flying creatures; hyperthermophiles; insects; marine organisms and stability of atmosphere and weather; meteorite theory (panspermia); mitochondria, development of; mystery or miracle of; natural impulse to assemble and; oneness of; oxygen levels and size of creatures; oxygenation of the atmosphere and; planets where possible; proteins and; saltationist theory; species, known; species, origination of; species, unknown; stromatolites, living remnants of 3.5 billion year old life; tetrapods; vertebrates; vertebrates, terrestrial; viruses. See also bacteria; extinctions; fossils; humans

Life: An Unauthorized Biography (Fortey)

Life at the Extremes (Ashcroft)

light: Michelson-Morley experiment; quantum theory; special theory of relativity; speed of, constant; symbol for speed of; as wave

Lightman, Alan

Lincoln, Abraham

Linde, Andrei

Linnaeus, Carolus

Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos (Overbye)

Longitude (Sobel)