| Contents |
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. |
| Abstract |
"...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. |
| Local note | Little-472133--305131067316- |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Audience |
1160 Lexile |
| LCCN | 2015907841 |
| ISBN | 9780990782902 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 0990782905 (hardcover) |
| Stock number | 1394077 QBI |
