Bibliograph

Magnificent minds, sixteen pioneering women in science and medicine, Pendred Noyce

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Magnificent minds, sixteen pioneering women in science and medicine, Pendred Noyce

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140)

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Magnificent minds

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

944463815

Responsibility statement

Pendred Noyce

Sub title

sixteen pioneering women in science and medicine

Summary

For centuries, women have risen above their traditional roles to pursue new understanding of the natural world. This book, which grows out of an exhibit at the Grolier Club in New York, introduces the lives, sayings, and dreams of sixteen women over four centuries and chronicles their contributions to mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, computer science, and medicine

Table Of Contents

Midwife to the queen: Louise Bourgeois Boursier -- Figuring the stars: Maria Cunitz -- Chemistry for women: Marie Meurdrac -- A physicist of Bologna: Laura Bassi -- A loom that weaves numbers: Augusta Ada Byron, Countess Lovelace -- Health care researcher and statistician: Florence Nightingale -- Through a different door: Mary Putnam Jacobi -- The exalted and mysterious science: Sophie Kovalevskaya -- Radioactivity and the first woman nobelist: Marie Sklodowska Curie -- The physics of fission: Lise Meitner -- A founder of abstract algebra: Emmy Noether -- Jumping genes: Barbara McClintock -- Languages of the Admiral: Grace Murray Hopper -- The mystery of crystals: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Beta decay: Chien-Shiung Wu -- Inventing medicines: Gertrude B. Elion

Target audience

adolescent

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