Women of Science
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Women of Science

100 Inspirational Lives

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eBook - ePub

Women of Science

100 Inspirational Lives

About this book

Women have played a vital role in scientific discovery, although at times their participation has gone unrecognised. Their scholarly research and discoveries have provided a rich tapestry to add to the scientific endeavours of the world. It is important that these women be viewed through the lens of their time, placing their achievements in context throughout the past few centuries.

Their scientific fields of excellence include medicine, biology, astronomy, mathematics, physics, meteorology, geology, zoology and engineering, along with their various sub-categories. The significant contributions by women to science date from the earliest times and this book brings together the stories of those who have left their mark, despite the significant hurdles they have faced.

There are many women who deserve recognition in this way, including the much vaunted Madame Curie and Ada Lovelace, and there are others whose talent is undoubted although they have not received the plaudits they deserve. This book considers the lives and work of talented women from different eras, countries and scientific fields.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword by Kate Jenkins
  3. Preface
  4. Introduction by Emeritus Professor Rosalind F. Croucher AM
  5. Frances ‘Fran’ Elizabeth Allen
  6. Virginia Apgar
  7. Phoebe Sarah ‘Hertha’ Marks Ayrton
  8. Massimilla ‘Milla’ Baldo-Ceolin
  9. Alice Augusta Ball
  10. Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
  11. Florence Bascom
  12. Laura Bassi
  13. Ulrike Beisiegel
  14. Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
  15. Elizabeth Blackwell
  16. Mary Adela Blagg
  17. Katharine ‘Katie’ Burr Blodgett
  18. Rachel Littler Bodley
  19. Alice Middleton Boring
  20. Elizabeth Brown
  21. Linda Brown Buck
  22. (Susan) Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  23. Nina Byers
  24. Annie Jump Cannon
  25. Rachel Louise Carson
  26. Mary Lucy Cartwright
  27. Yvette Cauchois
  28. Edith Clarke
  29. Anna Botsford Comstock
  30. Esther Marly Conwell
  31. Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
  32. Marie Skłodowska Curie
  33. Ingrid Daubechies
  34. Olive Wetzel Dennis
  35. Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
  36. (Gabrielle) Émilie du Châtelet
  37. Alice Eastwood
  38. Elsie Eaves
  39. Gertrude Belle Elion
  40. Thelma Austern Estrin
  41. Margaret Clay Ferguson
  42. Lydia Folger Fowler
  43. Rosalind Elsie Franklin
  44. (Marie) Sophie Germain
  45. Catherine ‘Kate’ Anselm Gleason
  46. Gertrude ‘Trude’ Scharff Goldhaber
  47. Anna Jane Harrison
  48. Caroline Lucretia Herschel
  49. Beatrice Alice Hicks
  50. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
  51. Erna Schneider Hoover
  52. Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
  53. Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins
  54. Frances Betty Sarnat Hugle
  55. Shirley Ann Jackson
  56. Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
  57. Nalini Joshi
  58. Helen Dean King
  59. Maria Margaretha Winckelman Kirch
  60. Margaret Galland Kivelson
  61. Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya Kovalevskaya
  62. Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf
  63. Stephanie Louise Kwolek
  64. Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler ‘Hedy Lamarr’
  65. Inge Lehmann
  66. Rita Levi-Montalcini
  67. Barbara Jane Huberman Liskov
  68. (Augusta) Ada Byron Lovelace
  69. Elizabeth ‘Elsie’ Muriel Gregory MacGill
  70. Margaret Eliza Maltby
  71. Lynn Petra Alexander Margulis
  72. Mileva Marić-Einstein
  73. Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury
  74. Maria Göppert Mayer
  75. (Eleanor) Barbara McClintock
  76. Elise ‘Lise’ Meitner
  77. Maud Leonora Menten
  78. Maria Sibylla Merian
  79. Maryam Mirzakhani
  80. Maria Mitchell
  81. Maria Marcia Neugebauer
  82. Ida Tacke Noddack
  83. Amalie ‘Emmy’ Noether
  84. Christiane ‘Janni’ Nüsslein-Volhard
  85. Muriel Wheldale Onslow
  86. Ruby Violet Payne-Scott
  87. Rózsa Péter
  88. Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels
  89. Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn
  90. Mina Spiegel Rees
  91. Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
  92. Mary Ellen Estill Rudin
  93. Hazel Marguerite Schmoll
  94. Beatrice (‘Tilly’) Shilling
  95. Michelle Yvonne Simmons
  96. Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville
  97. ‘Janet’ Jane Ann Ionn Taylor
  98. Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum
  99. Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
  100. Mildred Trotter
  101. Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler
  102. Sheila Marie Evans Widnall
  103. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
  104. Ada E. Lifshitz Yonath
  105. Bibliography
  106. Photograph Credits