ID | 022831 |
Call Number | 920/IGN |
Title Proper | Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world |
Language | ENG |
Author | Ignotofsky, Rachel |
Publication | New York, Ten Speed Press, 2016. |
Description | 128p Brown spine |
Note | A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual. |
Note | Hypatia (350 CE-370 -415 CE ) Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) Mary Anning (1799-1847) Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) Karen Horney (1885-1952) Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) Florence Bascom (1862-1945) Marie Curie (1867-1934) Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) Timeline Lise Meitner (1878-1968) Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972) Emmy Noether (1882-1935) Edith Clarke (1883-1959) Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) Alice Ball (1892-1916) Gerty Cori (1896-1957) Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897-1931) Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) Grace Hopper (1906-1992) Rachel Carson (1907-1964) Lab tools Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983) Gertrude Elion (1918-1999) Katherine Johnson (1918- ) Jane Cooke Wright (1919-2013) Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) Rosalyn Yalow (1921-2011) Esther Lederberg (1922-2006) Statistics in stem Vera Rubin (1928- ) Annie Easley (1933-2011) Jane Goodall (1934- ) Sylvia Earle (1935- ) Valentina Tereshkova (1937- ) Patricia Bath (1942- ) Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942- ) Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ) Sau Lan Wu (194?- ) Elizabeth Blackburn (1948- ) Katia Krafft (1942-1991) Mae Jemison (1956- ) May-Britt Moser (1963- ) Maryam Mirzakhani (1977- ) More women in science |
Standard Number | 9781607749769 |
Price. Qualification | $16.99(Hb) |
Classification Number | 920 |
Key Words | Women - Biography ; Women scientists - Biography ; UOI - Science |