Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world Rachel Ignotofsky.

By:

Ignotofsky, Rachel

Material type: Text

978-1-60774-976-9

Subject(s):

Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc. Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Women scientists -- Biography

DDC classification:

509.252 IGN-W

Contents:

Introduction -- Hypatia Maria Sibylla Merian Wang Zhenyi Mary Anning Ada Lovelace Elizabeth Blackwell Hertha Ayrton Karen Horney Nettie Stevens Florence Bascom Marie Curie Mary Agnes Chase Timeline Lise Meitner Lillian Gilbreth Emmy Noether Edith Clarke Marjory Stoneman Douglas Alice Ball Gerty Cori Joan Beauchamp Proct Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Barbara McClintock Maria Goeppert Mayer Grace Hopper Rachel Carson Lab tools Rita Levi-Montalcini Dorothy Hodgkin Chien-Shiung Wu Hedy Lamarr Mamie Phipps Clark Gertrude Elion Katherine Johnson Jane Cooke Wright Rosalind Franklin Rosalyn Yalow Esther Lederberg

Summary: 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. Full of art, this collection also contains infographics about relevant topics such as lab equipment, rates of women currently working in STEM fields, and an illustrated scientific glossary.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Home library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center	Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	509.252 IGN-W (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		DCB3866

The trailblazing women profiled include well-known figures like primatologist Jane Goodall, as well as lesser-known pioneers such as Katherine Johnson, the African-American physicist and mathematician who calculated the trajectory of the 1969 Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

Introduction --
Hypatia
Maria Sibylla Merian
Wang Zhenyi
Mary Anning
Ada Lovelace
Elizabeth Blackwell
Hertha Ayrton
Karen Horney
Nettie Stevens
Florence Bascom
Marie Curie
Mary Agnes Chase
Timeline
Lise Meitner
Lillian Gilbreth
Emmy Noether
Edith Clarke
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Alice Ball
Gerty Cori
Joan Beauchamp Proct
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin
Barbara McClintock
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Grace Hopper
Rachel Carson
Lab tools
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Dorothy Hodgkin
Chien-Shiung Wu
Hedy Lamarr
Mamie Phipps Clark
Gertrude Elion
Katherine Johnson
Jane Cooke Wright
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalyn Yalow
Esther Lederberg

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. Full of art, this collection also contains infographics about relevant topics such as lab equipment, rates of women currently working in STEM fields, and an illustrated scientific glossary.

Text in English.

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