Trailblazers
33 Women in Science Who Changed the World
New York : Delacorte Press, [2016]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: xii, 195 pages ; 22 cm
"A collection of profiles of some of history's most fascinating female scientists."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Technology and invention: Ada Lovelace ; Hertha Ayrton ; Hedy Lamarr ; Ruth Benerito ; Stephanie Kwolek ; Grace Murray Hopper -- The Earth and stars: Maria Gaetana Agnesi ; Maria Mitchell ; Emmy Noether ; Sophie Kowalevski ; Annie Jump Cannon ; Marguerite Perey ; Marie Tharp ; Yvonne Brill ; Sally Ride -- Health and medicine: Ellen Swallow Richards ; Anna Wessels Williams ; Alice Hamilton ; Alice Ball ; Helen Taussig ; Elsie Widdowson ; Virginia Apgar ; Jane Wright ; Florence Nightingale -- Biology: Maria Sibylla Merian ; Jeanne Villepreux-Power ; Mary Anning ; Barbara McClintock ; Rachel Carson ; Ruth Patrick ; Rita Levi-Montalcini ; Rosalind Franklin ; Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
Subjects:
Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: 010+.
ISBN:
9780399553967
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Trailblazers | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Trailblazers | Main (Downtown) | Garden Level, Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Trailblazers | Ballentine Indoors | Children's Biography | In |
C BIOGRAPHY Collective Trailblazers | Southeast | Children's Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-189) and index.