Meeting the challenge : top women in science /
"Astronomy was the earliest science in which women's participation has been recorded. Enheduanna, the Mezopotanian priestess around 2350 BCE monitored the stars and Hypathia in the fourth century is especially famous. Women astronomers such as Sophia Brahe, Maria Cunitz, Elisabetha Heveliu...
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword (by Eszter Hargittai)
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Astronomers
- Sophia Brahe
- Maria Cunitz
- Elisabetha Hevelius
- Maria Margaretha Winkelmann Kirch
- Caroline Herschel
- Mary Somerville
- Maria Mitchell
- Williamina Fleming and the Women of the Harvard Observatory
- Cecilia Helena Payne-.Gaposchkin
- Nancy Grace Roman
- Vera C. Rubin
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- France A. Cordova
- Andrea M. Ghez
- 2. Mathematicians
- Elena Cornaro Piscopia
- Laura Maria Caterina Bassi
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi
- Ada Lovelace
- Sonia Kovalevsky
- Mileva Maric-.Einstein
- Emmy Noether
- Rózsa Péter
- Kathleen Ollerenshaw
- Mary Winston Jackson
- Karen K. Uhlenbeck
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- 3. Physicists
- The Loneliness of the Female Physicist
- The Radium Institute
- Elisabeth Rona
- Marietta Blau
- Elisaveta Karamichailova
- Berta Karlik
- Marie Curie
- Isabelle Stone
- Harriet Brooks
- Lise Meitner
- Leona Woods Marshall
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Antonina F. Prikhotko
- Chien-.Shiung Wu
- Ruby Payne-.Scott and Other Australian Female Physicists
- Rosalyn Yalow
- Mildred Dresselhaus
- Donna T. Strickland
- 4. Crystallographers
- Kathleen Lonsdale
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Rosalind Franklin
- Isabella Karle
- Pioneers of Data Banks
- Barbara Mez-.Starck
- Olga Kennard
- Ada E. Yonath
- Caroline H. MacGillavry and the Art of M. C. Escher
- Ágnes Csanády and Quasicrystals
- 5. Chemists and Biochemists
- Gerty Cori
- Alice Ball
- Ida Noddack
- Irène Joliot-.Curie
- Klavdia V. Topchieva
- Mildred Cohn
- Gertrude B. Elion
- Maxine F. Singer
- Elena G. Galpern
- Joan A. Steitz
- Lynne E. Maquat
- Katalin Karikó
- Paula T. Hammond
- Jennifer A. Doudna and Emmanuelle M. Charpentier
- Carolyn R. Bertozzi.
- 6. Biologists and Biomedical Scientists
- Zinaida V. Ermoleva
- Barbara McClintock
- Aleksandra A. Prokofieva-.Belgovskaya
- Rita Levi-.Montalcini
- Frances O. Kelsey
- Anne McLaren
- Christiane Nusslein-.Volhard
- Linda B. Buck
- Françoise Barré-.Sinoussi
- Barbara M. F. Pearse
- Elizabeth H. Blackburn
- Carol W. Greider
- May-.Britt Moser
- 7. Physicians, Surgeons, and Nurses
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Rebecca Lee Crumpler
- Rebecca Cole
- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
- Louisa Brandbeth Aldrich-.Blake
- Florence R. Sabin
- The Moscow Higher Courses for Women
- Lina S. Stern
- Women in Medicine in London
- Nurses
- 8. Inventors and Technologists
- Hertha Ayrton
- Katharine Blodgett
- Pioneers in Aviation and Space Travel
- Frances H. Arnold
- 9. Ecologists
- Rachel Carson
- Miriam Rothschild
- Ayhan Ulubelen
- Chulabhorn Mahidol
- Jane Morris Goodall and Other Primatologists
- Youyou Tu
- Name Index.