American Women Scientists
Subtitle: 23 Inspiring Biographies, 1900-2000
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: July 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9780786406494
Subjects: Biography: general; History of science; History; Women In Science; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Women; Scientists - General; General; 20th century; Biography; United States; Women scientists
Description: This is a book about women who have sailed - beyond the barriers of "women's work" and gender stereotypes, to chart new courses in the sciences. They have made significant, often groundbreaking achievements in widely varying fields including nuclear physics (Maria Goeppert Mayer), pharmaceutical chemistry (Gertrude Elion), industrial medicine (Alice Hamilton), psychiatry (Karen Horney), cytogenetics (Barbara McClintock), and many others.

Twenty-three women, six of them Nobel Prize winners, are profiled in this informative and inspiring work.