Title: Notable women in the life sciences : a biographical dictionary /
Authors: Shearer, Benjamin F.; Shearer, Barbara Smith.
Publisher: Greenwood Press,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Women; History, 20th Century; History of Medicine; Biological Science Disciplines; Women life scientists Biography Dictionaries.; Biological Science Disciplines Dictionary English.; History of Medicine Dictionary English.; Biological Science Disciplines history; History, 20th Century Dictionary English.; Women Dictionary English.; Women history; Biological Science Disciplines history Biography.; Biological Science Disciplines history Dictionary English.; Women history Biography.; Women history Dictionary English.
Abstract: Essays on 97 women scientists, including their developmental influences, obstacles they faced, and their efforts to contribute to their chosen professions.
Contents: Hattie Elizabeth Alexander -- Dorothy Hansine Andersen -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -- Virginia Apgar -- Aspasia -- Mary Ellen Avery -- Florence Merriam Bailey -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Rachel Littler Bodley -- Marie Anne Victoire Gallain Boivin -- Roberta Lynn Bondar -- Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton -- E. (Estella) Eleanor Carothers - Rachel Carson -- Mary Agnes Meara Chase -- Lin Chíao-chih -- Cornelia M. Clapp -- Edith Jane Claypole -- Jewel Plummer Cobb -- Rita Rossi Colwell -- Elizabeth Caroline Crosby -- Gladys Rowena Henry Dick -- Alice Eastwood -- Sophia Hennion Eckerson -- Rosa Smith Eigenmann -- Cornelia Bonté Sheldon Amos Elgood -- Katherine Esau -- Alice Catherine Evans -- Marilyn Gist Farquhar -- Margaret Clay Ferguson -- Katherine Foot -- Rosalind Elsie Franklin -- Charlotte Friend -- Susanna Phelps Gage -- Alessandra Giliani -- Mary Jane Guthrie -- Alice Hamilton -- Ethel Nicholson Browne Harvey -- Elizabeth Dexter Hay -- Elizabeth Lee Hazen -- Heloise -- Herrad of Landsberg -- Hope Hibbard -- Hildegard of Bingen -- Ariel Cahill Hollinshead -- Ruth Hubbard -- Ida Henrietta Hyde -- Libbie Henrietta Hyman -- Aletta Henriette Jacobs -- Sophia Jex-Blake -- Anandibai Joshee -- Evelyn Fox Keller -- Frances Oldham Kelsey -- Chung-Hee Kil -- Helen Dean King -- Louisa Boyd Yeomans King -- Mimi A.R. Koehl -- Marie-Louise Lachapelle -- Rebecca Craighill Lancefield -- Elise Depew Strang L'Esperance -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Margaret Adaline Reed Lewis -- Martha Daniell Logan -- Jane Lubchenco -- Madge Thurlow Macklin -- Barbara McClintock -- Maria Sibylla M