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.
978-1-60774-976-9
Medicine -- Comic books, strips, etc. Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature. Women scientists -- Biography.