Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world

Ignotofsky, Rachel, 1989-2016

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This title for school students provides a collection inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. From the Ancient world to the present, each of these fearless pioneers and notable individuals who changed the world is featured in a profile that highlights their contribution. Find out who is currently working in STEM research fields along with prominent women from the past. It's a scientific fact: women rock!.

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Main title:

Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world / written and illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky.

Author:

Ignotofsky, Rachel, 1989-, author illustrator

Edition:

First edition.

Imprint:

Collation:

127 pages : colour illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series title:

PRC 5to6

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Audience:

Interest grade level: Upper primary.; Secondary.

Contents:

Introduction -- 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 -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- About the author.

ISBN:

9781607749769 (hardback)

Dewey class:

509.252

Language:

English

Added title:

Women in science : fifty fearless pioneers who changed the world

Subject:

Women scientists -- BiographyWomen mathematicians -- BiographyWomen engineers -- BiographyScienceTechnologyMathematicsEngineeringPremier's reading challenge -- grades 5to6

BRN:

346005