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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
- Cover
- Foreword by Kate Jenkins
- Preface
- Introduction by Emeritus Professor Rosalind F. Croucher AM
- Frances ‘Fran’ Elizabeth Allen
- Virginia Apgar
- Phoebe Sarah ‘Hertha’ Marks Ayrton
- Massimilla ‘Milla’ Baldo-Ceolin
- Alice Augusta Ball
- Nora Stanton Blatch Barney
- Florence Bascom
- Laura Bassi
- Ulrike Beisiegel
- Elizabeth Helen Blackburn
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Mary Adela Blagg
- Katharine ‘Katie’ Burr Blodgett
- Rachel Littler Bodley
- Alice Middleton Boring
- Elizabeth Brown
- Linda Brown Buck
- (Susan) Jocelyn Bell Burnell
- Nina Byers
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Rachel Louise Carson
- Mary Lucy Cartwright
- Yvette Cauchois
- Edith Clarke
- Anna Botsford Comstock
- Esther Marly Conwell
- Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
- Marie Skłodowska Curie
- Ingrid Daubechies
- Olive Wetzel Dennis
- Mildred Spiewak Dresselhaus
- (Gabrielle) Émilie du Châtelet
- Alice Eastwood
- Elsie Eaves
- Gertrude Belle Elion
- Thelma Austern Estrin
- Margaret Clay Ferguson
- Lydia Folger Fowler
- Rosalind Elsie Franklin
- (Marie) Sophie Germain
- Catherine ‘Kate’ Anselm Gleason
- Gertrude ‘Trude’ Scharff Goldhaber
- Anna Jane Harrison
- Caroline Lucretia Herschel
- Beatrice Alice Hicks
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
- Erna Schneider Hoover
- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper
- Margaret Lindsay Murray Huggins
- Frances Betty Sarnat Hugle
- Shirley Ann Jackson
- Sophia Louisa Jex-Blake
- Nalini Joshi
- Helen Dean King
- Maria Margaretha Winckelman Kirch
- Margaret Galland Kivelson
- Sofia Vasilyevna Korvin-Krukovskaya Kovalevskaya
- Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf
- Stephanie Louise Kwolek
- Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler ‘Hedy Lamarr’
- Inge Lehmann
- Rita Levi-Montalcini
- Barbara Jane Huberman Liskov
- (Augusta) Ada Byron Lovelace
- Elizabeth ‘Elsie’ Muriel Gregory MacGill
- Margaret Eliza Maltby
- Lynn Petra Alexander Margulis
- Mileva Marić-Einstein
- Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury
- Maria Göppert Mayer
- (Eleanor) Barbara McClintock
- Elise ‘Lise’ Meitner
- Maud Leonora Menten
- Maria Sibylla Merian
- Maryam Mirzakhani
- Maria Mitchell
- Maria Marcia Neugebauer
- Ida Tacke Noddack
- Amalie ‘Emmy’ Noether
- Christiane ‘Janni’ Nüsslein-Volhard
- Muriel Wheldale Onslow
- Ruby Violet Payne-Scott
- Rózsa Péter
- Agnes Luise Wilhelmine Pockels
- Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn
- Mina Spiegel Rees
- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
- Mary Ellen Estill Rudin
- Hazel Marguerite Schmoll
- Beatrice (‘Tilly’) Shilling
- Michelle Yvonne Simmons
- Mary Fairfax Greig Somerville
- ‘Janet’ Jane Ann Ionn Taylor
- Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum
- Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova
- Mildred Trotter
- Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler
- Sheila Marie Evans Widnall
- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
- Ada E. Lifshitz Yonath
- Bibliography
- Photograph Credits