Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
Title:
Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
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ISBN:
9780553446791
Edition:
First edition.
Physical Description:
xiv, 273 pages ; 21 cm
Contents:
The earth and stars -- Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842) -- Maria Mitchell (1818) -- Annie Jump Cannon (1863) -- Inge Lehmann (1888) -- Marie Tharp (1920) -- Yvonne Brill (1924) -- Sally Ride (1951) -- Medicine -- Anna Williams (1863) -- Alice Ball (1892) -- Gerti Radnitz Cori (1896) -- Helen Brooke Taussing (1898) -- Elsie Widdowson (1906) -- Virginia Apgar (1909) -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910) -- Gertrude Elion (1918) -- Jane C. wright (1919) -- Biology and the environment -- Maria Sibylla Merian (1647) -- Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794) -- Mary Anning (1799) -- Ellen Swallow Richards (1842) -- Alice Hamilton (1869) -- Alice Evans (1881) -- Tilly Edinger (1897) -- Rachel Carson (1907) -- Ruth Patrick (1907) -- Genetics and development -- Nettie Stevens (1861) -- Hilde Mangold (1898) -- Charlotte Auerbach (1899) -- Barbara McClintock (1902) -- Salome G. Waelsch (1907) -- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909) -- Rosalind Franklin (1920) -- Anne McLaren (1927) -- Lynn Margulis (1938) -- Physics -- Emilie du Chatelet (1706) -- Lise Meitner (1878) -- Irene Juliot-Curie (1897) -- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906) -- Marguerite Perey (1909) -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912) -- Rosalyn Yalow (1921) -- Math and technology -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718) -- Ada Lovelace (1815) -- Florence Nightingale (1820) -- Sophie Kowalevski (1850) -- Emmy Noether (1882) -- Mary Cartwright (1900) -- Grace Murray Hopper (1906) -- Invention -- Hertha Ayrton (1854) -- Hedy Lamarr (1913) -- Ruth Benerito (1916) -- Stephanie Kwolek (1923).
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Summary:
"Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby's ... profiles span centuries of courageous thinkers and illustrate how each one's ideas developed, from their first moment of scientific engagement through the research and discovery for which they're best known"--Page 4 of cover.
