Women of science : 100 inspirational lives / John S. Croucher ; introduction by professor Rosalind F. Croucher.

  • Croucher, John S.
Date:
2019
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Description

An investigation into the lives of some of the more remarkable women in the history of scientific discovery.

Publication/Creation

Stroud : Amberley Publishing, 2019.

Physical description

352 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Contents

Foreword / by Kate Jenkins -- Preface -- Introduction / by Emeritus Professor Rosalind F. Croucher AM -- Frances 'Fran' Elizabeth Allen -- Virginia Apgar -- Phoebe Sarah 'Hertha' Marks Ayrton -- Massimilla 'Mdla' Baldo-Ceolm -- Alice Augusta Ball -- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney -- Florence Bascom -- Laura Bassi -- Ulrike Beisiege -- Elizabeth Helen Blackburn -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Mary Adela Blagg -- Katharine 'Katie' Burr Blodgett -- Rachel Littler Bodley -- Alice Middleton Boring -- Elizabeth Brown -- Linda Brown Buck -- (Susan) Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Nina Byers -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Rachel Louise Carson -- Mary Lucy Cartwright -- Yvette Cauchois -- Edith Clarke -- Anna Botsford Comstock -- Esther Marly Conwell -- Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori -- Marie Sklodowska Curie -- Ingrid Daubechies -- Olive Wetzel Dennis -- Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus -- (Gabrielle) Émilie du Châtelet -- Alice Eastwood -- Elsie Eaves -- Gertrude Belle Elion -- Thelma Austern Estrin -- Margaret Clay Ferguson -- Lydia Folger Fowler -- Rosalind Elsie Franklin -- (Marie) Sophie Germain -- Catherine 'Kate' Anselm Gleason -- Gertrude 'Trude' Scharff Goldhaber -- Anna Jane Harrison -- Caroline Lucretia Hetschel -- Beatrice Alice Hicks -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Erna Schneider Hoover -- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper -- Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins -- Frances Betty Sarnat Hugle -- Shirley Ann Jackson -- Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake -- Nalini Joshi -- Helen Dean King -- Maria Margaretha Winckelman Kirch -- Margaret Galland Kivelson -- Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya Kovalevskaya -- Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf -- Stephanie Louise Kwolek -- Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler 'Hedy Lamarr' -- Inge Lehmann -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Barbara Jane Huberman Liskov -- (Augusta) Ada Byron Lovelace -- Elizabeth 'Elsie' Muriel Gregory MacGill -- Margaret Eliza Maltby -- Lynn Petra Alexander Margulis -- Mileva Maric-Einstein -- Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury -- Maria Göppert Mayer -- (Eleanor) Barbara McClintock -- Elise 'Lise' Meitner -- Maud Leonora Menten -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Maryam Mirzakhani -- Maria Mitchell -- Maria Marcia Neugebauer -- Ida Tacke Noddack -- Amalie 'Emmy' Noether -- Christiane 'Janni' Nüsslein-Volhard -- Muriel Wheldale Onslow -- Ruby Violet Payne-Scott -- Rozsa Peter -- Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels -- Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn -- Mina Spiegel Rees -- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards -- Mary Ellen Estill Rudin -- Hazel Marguerite Schmoll -- Beatrice ('Tilly') Shilling -- Michelle Yvonne Simmons -- Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville -- 'Janet' Jane Ann Ionn Taylor -- Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum -- Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova -- Mildred Trotter -- Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler -- Sheila Marie Evans Widnall -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Ada E. Lifshitz Yonath.

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Includes bibliographical references.

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  • 1445684713
  • 9781445684710