Forgotten Women
Subtitle: The scientists
By: Zing Tsjeng
Series: Forgotten Women
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781788400428
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Women scientists; Biography; Women
Description: Short biographies of women scientists, both the well known, and the largely forgotten.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-212) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Earth & Universe. The Harvard computers --; title: Inge Lehmann --; title: Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin --; title: Wang Zhenyi --; title: Annie Scott Dill Maunder --; title: Ruby Payne-Scott --; title: Biology & Natural sciences.Mary Anning --; title: Maria Sibylla Merian --; title: Dian Fossey --; title: Bertha Lutz --; title: Jane Colden --; title: Esther Lederberg --; title: Ynés Mexía --; title: Wangari Maathai --; title: Medicine & Psychology. Aspasia --; title: Fe del Mundo --; title: Irene Joliot-Curie --; title: Jane Cooke Wright --; title: Ruby Hirose --; title: Kamala Sohonie --; title: Margaret Sanger --; title: Gertrude B. Elion --; title: Helen Rodriguez-Trias --; title: Elisabeth Kübler-Ross --; title: Leta Hollingworth --; title: Elements & Genetics. Nettie Stevens --; title: Ida Noddack --; title: Rosalind Franklin --; title: Rita Levi-Montalcini --; title: Physics & Chemistry. Chien-Shiung Wu --; title: Lise Meitner --; title: Leona Woods Marshall Libby --; title: Tapputi --; title: Laura Bassi --; title: Dorothy Hodgkin --; title: Mathematics. Hypatia of Alexandria --; title: Emilie du Chatelet --; title: The Bletchleyettes --; title: Emmy Noether --; title: Sofia Kovalevskaya --; title: Sophie Germain --; title: Technology & Inventions. Maria the Jewess --; title: Mary Beatrice Davidson Kenner --; title: Hertha Ayrton --; title: Admiral Grace Hopper --; title: The West computers --; title: Rose Dieng-Kuntz --; title: Ada Lovelace.