The Life Science Library was a popular series of hardbound books published by Time-Life

Time-Life

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 between 1963 and 1967. Each of the 26 volumes explored a major topic of the natural sciences. They were intended for, and written at a level appropriate to, an educated lay readership. In each volume, the text of each of eight chapters was followed by a "Picture Essay" lavishly illustrating the subject of the preceding chapter. The Consulting Editors of the series were microbiologist

Microbiologist

A microbiologist is a scientist who works in the field of microbiology. Microbiologists study organisms called microbes. Microbes can take the form of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists...

 Rene Dubos

René Dubos

René Jules Dubos was a French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is credited as an author of a maxim "Think globally, act locally"...

, physicist

Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...

 Henry Margenau

Henry Margenau

Henry Margenau was a German-U.S. physicist, and philosopher of science.-Early life:Born Bielefeld, Germany, Margenau obtained his bachelor's degree from Midland Lutheran College, Nebraska before his M.Sc...

, and physicist and novelist C.P. Snow.

Each volume was written by a primary author (or authors) "and the Editors of LIFE". The 26 volumes in the series were:

• Matter (1963), by Ralph E. Lapp
  Ralph Lapp
  Ralph Eugene Lapp was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project.He was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University of Chicago. After completing his graduate studies at the University he joined the Manhattan Project; and became the assistant Director of the...
  
  
• Energy (1963), by Mitchell Wilson
• Mathematics (1963), by David Bergamini
  David Bergamini
  David Bergamini , was an American author who wrote books on 20th century history and popular science, notably mathematics...
  
  
• The Body (1964), by Alan E. Nourse
  Alan E. Nourse
  Alan Edward Nourse was an American science fiction author and physician. He wrote both juvenile and adult science fiction, as well as nonfiction works about medicine and science. His SF works generally focused on medicine and/or psionics.-Biography:Alan Nourse was born August 11, 1928 to...
  
  
• The Cell (1964), by John Pfeiffer
  John Pfeiffer
  John "Jack" Pfeiffer , was a classical recording producer.-Life and career:Born in Tucson, Arizona, Pfeiffer studied music and engineering at the University of Arizona and Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas...
  
  
• The Scientist (1964), by Henry Margenau
  Henry Margenau
  Henry Margenau was a German-U.S. physicist, and philosopher of science.-Early life:Born Bielefeld, Germany, Margenau obtained his bachelor's degree from Midland Lutheran College, Nebraska before his M.Sc...
  
   and David Bergamini
  David Bergamini
  David Bergamini , was an American author who wrote books on 20th century history and popular science, notably mathematics...
  
  
• Machines (1964), by Robert O'Brien
  Robert C. O'Brien
  Robert Leslie Conly was an American author and journalist for National Geographic Magazine.-Early life:...
  
  
• Man and Space (1964), by Arthur C. Clarke
  Arthur C. Clarke
  Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey, and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World. For many years, Robert A. Heinlein,...
  
  
• The Mind (1964), by John Rowan Wilson
• Sound and Hearing (1965), by S.S. Stevens
  Stanley Smith Stevens
  Stanley Smith Stevens was an American psychologist who founded Harvard's Psycho-Acoustic Laboratory and is credited with the introduction of Stevens' power law. Stevens authored a milestone textbook, the 1400+ page "Handbook of Experimental Psychology" . He was also one of the founding organizers...
  
   and Fred Warshofsky
• Ships (1965), by Edward V. Lewis and Robert O'Brien
  Robert C. O'Brien
  Robert Leslie Conly was an American author and journalist for National Geographic Magazine.-Early life:...
  
  
• Flight (1965), by H. Guyford Stever and James J. Haggerty
• Growth (1965), by James M. Tanner and Gordon Rattray Taylor
  Gordon Rattray Taylor
  Gordon Rattray Taylor was a popular British author and journalist. He is most famous for his 1968 book The Biological Time Bomb, which heralded the rise of biotechnology and for his 1983 book The Great Evolution Mystery.-Biography:Gordon Rattray Taylor was born in Eastbourne on 11 January 1911,...
  
  
• Health and Disease (1965), by Rene Dubos
  René Dubos
  René Jules Dubos was a French-born American microbiologist, experimental pathologist, environmentalist, humanist, and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for his book So Human An Animal. He is credited as an author of a maxim "Think globally, act locally"...
  
   and Maya Pines
• Weather (1965), by Philip D. Thompson and Robert O'Brien
  Robert C. O'Brien
  Robert Leslie Conly was an American author and journalist for National Geographic Magazine.-Early life:...
  
  
• Planets (1966), by Carl Sagan
  Carl Sagan
  Carl Edward Sagan was an American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science popularizer and science communicator in astronomy and natural sciences. He published more than 600 scientific papers and articles and was author, co-author or editor of more than 20 books...
  
   and Jonathan Norton Leonard
• The Engineer (1966), by C.C. Furnas and Joe McCarthy
• Time (1966), by Samuel A. Goudsmit
  Samuel Abraham Goudsmit
  Samuel Abraham Goudsmit was a Dutch-American physicist famous for jointly proposing the concept of electron spin with George Eugene Uhlenbeck in 1925.-Biography:...
  
   and Robert Claiborne
  Robert Claiborne
  Robert Watson Claiborne, Jr. American folk singer, labor organizer and writer.-Overview:Robert Claiborne, grandson of John Herbert Claiborne, was a folk singer and union organizer in the 1940s and 1950s. He travelled and performed with such luminaries as Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and...
  
  
• Water (1966), by Luna B. Leopold and Kenneth S. Davis
  Kenneth S. Davis
  Kenneth Sydney Davis was a historian and university professor, most renowned for his series of biographies of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Davis also wrote biographies of Charles Lindbergh, Adlai Stevenson, and authored the first biography of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, entitled Dwight D...
  
  
• Giant Molecules (1966), by Herman F. Mark
• Light and Vision (1966), by Conrad G. Mueller and Mae Rudolph
• Food and Nutrition (1967), by William H. Sebrell, Jr and James J. Haggerty
• The Physician (1967), by Russel V. Lee and Sarel Eimerl
• Drugs (1967), by Walter Modell and Alfred Lansing
  Alfred Lansing
  Alfred Lansing was an American journalist and writer, best known for his book Endurance , an account of Ernest Shackleton's Antarctic explorations.-Early career:...
  
  
• Wheels (1967), by Ezra Bowen
• A Guide to Science and Index to the LIFE Science Library (1967)