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Headstrong : 52 women who changed science--and the world
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Title
Headstrong : 52 women who changed science--and the world / Rachel Swaby.
ISBN
9780553446791 (pbk.)
0553446797 (pbk.)
9780553446807 (ebk.)
0553446800 (ebk.)
9781101890578
1101890576
Edition
First edition.
Publication
New York : Broadway Books, [2015]
Physical Description
xiv, 273 pages ; 21 cm
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.
Variant and related titles
Head-strong : 52 women who changed science--and the world
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 30, 2015
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-263) and index.
Contents
Medicine. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906)
Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954)
Alice Ball (1892-1916)
Gerty Radnitz Cori (1896-1957)
Helen Taussig (1898-1986)
Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000)
Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994)
Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999)
Jane Wright (1919-2013)
Biology and the environment. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717)
Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871)
Mary Anning (1799-1847)
Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911)
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970)
Alice Evans (1881-1975)
Tilly Edinger (1897-1967)
Rachel Carson (1907-1964)
Ruth Patrick (1907-2013)
Genetics and development. Nettie Stevens (1861-1912)
Hilde Mangold (1898-1924)
Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994)
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)
Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch (1907-2007)
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012)
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958)
Anne McLaren (1927-2007)
Lynn Margulis (1938-2011)
Physics. Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749)
Lise Meitner (1878-1968)
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956)
Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972)
Marguerite Perey (1909-1975)
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997)
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011)
Earth and stars. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889)
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941)
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993)
Marie Tharp (1920-2006)
Yvonne Brill (1924-2013)
Sally Ride (1951-2012)
Math and technology. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852)
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
Sophie Kowalevski (1850-1891)
Emmy Noether (1882-1935)
Mary Cartwright (1900-1998)
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992)
Invention. Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923)
Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000)
Ruth Benerito (1916-2013)
Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014).
Medicine
Biology and the environment
Genetics and development
Physics
Earth and stars
Math and technology
Invention.
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