Remarkable minds Seventeen more pioneering women in science and medicine
Book - 2015
"...Presents the stories of seventeen women of science working in seven countries over a timespan of more than three centuries. From a scandalous French noblewoman who introduced Newton's ideas to France to the African American granddaughter of slaves who pioneered the field of chemotherapy, from a mathematical prodigy who retired from the world to practice charity to the daughter of a Nobel laureate determined to follow in her mother's footsteps, this book portrays women of strong personality who defied stereotypes and found their own way."--Front jacket flap.
- Subjects
- Published
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Boston, Massachusetts :
Tumblehome Learning, Inc
[2015]
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- 183 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780990782902
- Fire and living force : Émilie du Châtelet
- Reluctant prodigy : Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- Flesh and bones : Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville
- The shimmering cloth : Elizabeth Fulhame
- Numbers and vibrating plates : Sophie Germain
- Electrical suffragette : Hertha Ayrton
- Anatomical researcher : Florence Rena Sabin
- Starburst traces of cosmic rays : Marietta Blau
- Energy cycle : Gerty Cori
- Artificial radiation : Irène Joliot-Curie
- Saving blue babies : Helen Taussig
- What stars are made of : Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
- Nuclear shell model : Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Nerve growth factor : Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Chemotherapy pioneer : Jane Cooke Wright
- From charcoal to viruses : Rosalind E. Franklin
- Antibodies for diagnosis : Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
Review by School Library Journal Review