Headstrong
Subtitle: 52 women who changed science-- and the world
By: Rachel Swaby
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Broadway Books
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780553446791
Subjects: Women astronomers; Women physicians; Women scientists; Women biologists; Women mathematicians; Women physicists; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Medicine. Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906); title: Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954); title: Alice Ball (1892-1916); title: Gerty Radnitz Cori (1896-1957); title: Helen Taussig (1898-1986); title: Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000); title: Virginia Apgar (1909-1974); title: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994); title: Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999); title: Jane Wright (1919-2013); title: Biology and the environment. Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717); title: Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871); title: Mary Anning (1799-1847); title: Ellen Swallow Richards (1842-1911); title: Alice Hamilton (1869-1970); title: Alice Evans (1881-1975); title: Tilly Edinger (1897-1967); title: Rachel Carson (1907-1964); title: Ruth Patrick (1907-2013); title: Genetics and development. Nettie Stevens (1861-1912); title: Hilde Mangold (1898-1924); title: Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994); title: Barbara McClintock (1902-1992); title: Salome Gluecksohn Waelsch (1907-2007); title: Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012); title: Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958); title: Anne McLaren (1927-2007); title: Lynn Margulis (1938-2011); title: Physics. Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749); title: Lise Meitner (1878-1968); title: Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1956); title: Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972); title: Marguerite Perey (1909-1975); title: Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997); title: Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011); title: Earth and stars. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889); title: Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941); title: Inge Lehmann (1888-1993); title: Marie Tharp (1920-2006); title: Yvonne Brill (1924-2013); title: Sally Ride (1951-2012); title: Math and technology. Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799); title: Ada Lovelace (1815-1852); title: Florence Nightingale (1820-1910); title: Sophie Kowalevski (1850-1891); title: Emmy Noether (1882-1935); title: Mary Cartwright (1900-1998); title: Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992); title: Invention. Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923); title: Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000); title: Ruth Benerito (1916-2013); title: Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014).