'A superb series...These books would be excellent both for a library and for children and teachers to read as part of a science course.' -- TES 20030110 'A superb series by Hodder Wayland tells us about the lives of Scientists Who Made History.' -- TES 20030110

Paul Mason's is an experienced freelance writer and editor of a variety of children's information books. He has a degree in anthropology, and has worked in Turkey and taught English as a foreign language. He specialises in writing about the history of science for children. Apart from Newton, he has written children's biographies of Galileo Galilei and Thomas Edison.