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Nobel Prize women in science : [electronic resource] their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries / Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, c1993.Description: xi, 419 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1559721464
  • 9781559721462
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Nobel Prize women in science.DDC classification:
  • 509/.2/2 20
  • B 20
LOC classification:
  • Q141 .B42 1993
NLM classification:
  • Q 141
Other classification:
  • 02.00
Online resources:
Contents:
A passion for discovery -- Marie Skodowska Curie -- Lise Meitner -- Emmy Noether -- Gerty Radnitz Cori -- Irène Joliot-Curie -- Barbara McClintock -- Maria Goeppert Mayer -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Chien-Shiung Wu -- Gertrude Elion -- Rosalind Franklin -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell.
Summary: Exploring the reasons why only nine of the more than 300 recipients of the Nobel Prize in science have been women, science writer McGrayne examines the lives and achievements of 14 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. Their stories are case studies of triumph over relentless gender discrimination. B&w photographs throughout.
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"A Birch Lane Press book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 383-400) and index.

A passion for discovery -- Marie Skodowska Curie -- Lise Meitner -- Emmy Noether -- Gerty Radnitz Cori -- Irène Joliot-Curie -- Barbara McClintock -- Maria Goeppert Mayer -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Chien-Shiung Wu -- Gertrude Elion -- Rosalind Franklin -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell.

Exploring the reasons why only nine of the more than 300 recipients of the Nobel Prize in science have been women, science writer McGrayne examines the lives and achievements of 14 women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. Their stories are case studies of triumph over relentless gender discrimination. B&w photographs throughout.

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