Notable women in the physical sciences : a biographical dictionary / edited by Benjamin F. Shearer and Barbara S. Shearer.

Date:
1997
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Publication/Creation

Westport, Conn. ; London : Greenwood Press, 1997.

Physical description

xi, 479 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contents

Ida Barney -- Laura Bassi -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Ruth Mary Roan Benerito -- Leonora Neuffer Bilger -- Katharine Burr Blodgett -- E. Margaret Burbidge -- Mary Letitia Caldwell -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Emma Perry Carr -- Marjorie Caserio -- Mildred Cohn -- Gerty Cori -- Marie Sklodowska Curie -- Ingrid Daubechies -- Allie Vibert Douglas -- Helen M. Dyer -- Helen T. Edwards -- Gertrude Belle Elion -- Sandra Moore Faber -- Catherine Clarke Fenselau -- Mary Fieser -- Williamina Paton Fleming -- Helen M. Free -- Wendy Laurel Freedman -- Catharine D. Garmany -- Margaret Joan Geller -- Ellen Gleditsch -- Jenny Pickworth Glusker -- Maria Goeppert-Mayer -- Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber -- Mary Lowe Good -- Jeanette Grasselli (Brown) -- Arda Alden Green -- Dorothy Anna Hahn -- Heidi Hammel -- Anna Jane Harrison -- Margaret Harwood -- Caroline Herschel -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- E. Dorrit Hoffleit -- Helen Sawyer Hogg -- Icie Gertrude Macy Hoobler -- Allene Rosalind Jeanes -- Irene Joliot-Curie -- Madeleine M. Joullie -- Isabella L. Karle -- Joyce Jacobson Kaufman -- Vera E. Kistiakowsky -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt -- Leona Woods Marshall Libby -- Pauline Beery Mack -- Margaret Eliza Maltby -- Ines Mandl -- Antonia Maury -- Grace Medes -- Lise Meitner -- Miriam the Alchemist -- Maria Mitchell -- Agnes Fay Morgan -- Dorothy Virginia Nightingale -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -- Mary Engle Pennington -- Marguerite Perey -- Gertrude Perlmann -- Mary Locke Petermann -- Lucy Weston Pickett -- Helen W. Dodson Prince -- Kamal J. Ranadive -- Sarah Ratner -- Ellen Swallow Richards -- Jane Richardson -- Dorothea Klumpke Roberts -- Elizabeth Roemer -- Nancy Grace Roman -- Vera Cooper Rubin -- Florence B. Seibert -- Mary Lura Sherrill -- vandana Shiva -- Jeanne Marie Shreeve -- Sofia Simmonds -- Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly -- Mary Fairfax Somerville -- Betty Sullivan -- Henrietta Hill Swope -- Paula Szkody -- Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley -- Marjorie Jean Young Vold -- Emma T.R. Williams Vyssotsky -- Elizabeth Amy Kreiser Weisburger -- Sarah Frances Whiting -- Lee Anne M. Willson -- Chien--Shiung Wu -- Rosemary Wyse -- Xide Xie -- Judith Sharn Young.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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  • 0313293031