Five volumes present the lives and work of more than 40 great Western physicists, chemists, biologists, physiologists, and more. Each biography includes two timelines: scientific and political-cultural.

v.1: Aristotle -- Copernicus -- Galileo -- Kepler -- Hewton -- Linnaeus -- Lavoisier -- v.2: Watt -- Jenner -- Humboldt -- Faraday -- Darwin -- Babbage -- Pasteur -- Mendel -- v.3: Mendeleev -- Edison -- Bell -- The Curies -- Haber -- Einstein -- Wegener -- Fleming -- v.4: Bohr & Heisenberg -- Hubble -- Pauling -- McClintock -- The Leakeus -- Oppenheimer -- Calvin -- Turing -- Salk -- Elion -- v.5: Feyman -- Crick -- Franklin, & Watson -- Hawking.