Book Description
This book contains brief biographies of 20 women scientists.
Author : Elizabeth Moot O'Hern
Publisher : Acropolis Books (NY)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,30 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Science
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This book contains brief biographies of 20 women scientists.
Author : Elizabeth Moot OʹHern
Publisher :
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 1996
Category :
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Author : Rachel Ignotofsky
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 41,28 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0593377648
The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky, comes to the youngest readers in board format! Highlighting notable women's contributions to STEM, this board book edition features simpler text and Rachel Ignotofsky's signature illustrations reimagined for young readers to introduce the perfect role models to grow up with while inspiring a love of science. The collection includes diverse women across various scientific fields, time periods, and geographic locations. The perfect gift for every curious budding scientist!
Author : Margaret W. Rossiter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 10,94 MB
Release : 1998-09-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801857119
Winner of the Pfizer Award for Outstanding Book in the History of Science Margaret Rossiter's widely hailed Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 marked the beginning of a pioneering effort to interpret the history of American women scientists. That effort continues in this provocative sequel that covers the crucial years of World War II and beyond. Rossiter begins by showing how the acute labor shortage brought on by the war seemed to hold out new hope for women professionals, especially in the sciences. But the public posture of welcoming women into the scientific professions masked a deep-seated opposition to change. Rossiter proves that despite frustrating obstacles created by the patriarchal structure and values of universities, government, and industry, women scientists made genuine contributions to their fields, grew in professional stature, and laid the foundation for the breakthroughs that followed 1972.
Author : Marelene F. Rayner-Canham
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 35,9 MB
Release : 1997-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0773566589
A Devotion to Their Science includes biographical essays on twenty-three women who worked in atomic science during the first two decades of the twentieth century, including Marie Curie, Lise Meitner, Irène Joliot-Curie, and a host of lesser-known women scientists whose life stories have never before been told. The biographies highlight the lives and work of these women, noting their contributions and the challenges they faced and overcame. Taken together the essays record their collective experiences, highlighting the support network that developed among them and the reasons women were more predominant in this field than in other sciences in the early part of this century. By recovering and recording individual and collective histories of the many eminent women in radioactivity whose work had a major impact on the scientific discoveries of the twentieth century, a more complete, gender-integrated view of the history of this fascinating field emerges.
Author : King-Thom Chung
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,61 MB
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0786458178
While most laymen could recognize Florence Nightingale as the founder of modern nursing, it's doubtful they could likewise identify Louise Pearce as one of the primary researchers in the cure for African Sleeping Sickness or Anna W. Williams as the discoverer of the diphtheria antitoxin. This book profiles 25 women who have made significant contributions to medical research, including Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lydia Folger Fowler, Virginia Apgar, and Rosalind Franklin, among others. Each profile includes a general introduction and covers the woman's childhood or family background, her formal education, her most valuable contributions to the field, and the important events or persons which influenced her life and career.
Author : Margaret W. Rossiter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780801825095
Winner of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians Prize In volume one of this landmark study, focusing on developments up to 1940, Margaret Rossiter describes the activities and personalities of the numerous women scientists—astronomers, chemists, biologists, and psychologists—who overcame extraordinary obstacles to contribute to the growth of American science. This remarkable history recounts women's efforts to establish themselves as members of the scientific community and examines the forces that inhibited their active and visible participation in the sciences.
Author : Rachel Swaby
Publisher : Crown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 13,32 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 0553446800
Fifty-two inspiring and insightful profiles of history’s brightest female scientists. “Rachel Swaby’s no-nonsense and needed Headstrong dynamically profiles historically overlooked female visionaries in science, technology, engineering, and math.”—Elle In 2013, the New York Times published an obituary for Yvonne Brill. It began: “She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job, and took eight years off from work to raise three children.” It wasn’t until the second paragraph that readers discovered why the Times had devoted several hundred words to her life: Brill was a brilliant rocket scientist who invented a propulsion system to keep communications satellites in orbit, and had recently been awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Among the questions the obituary—and consequent outcry—prompted were, Who are the role models for today’s female scientists, and where can we find the stories that cast them in their true light? Headstrong delivers a powerful, global, and engaging response. Covering Nobel Prize winners and major innovators, as well as lesser-known but hugely significant scientists who influence our every day, Rachel Swaby’s vibrant 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. This fascinating tour reveals 52 women at their best—while encouraging and inspiring a new generation of girls to put on their lab coats.
Author : Mary Somerville
Publisher :
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 48,27 MB
Release : 1834
Category : Physical science
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Author : Nancy A. Williams
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 17,99 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781557285881
"The information condensed into this single reference volume will be valuable to general readers of all ages, libraries, museums, and scholars."--BOOK JACKET.