Headstrong : 52 women who changed science-- and the world
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Broadway Books, [2015]
Physical Description
xiv, 273 pages ; 21 cm
Contents
- The earth and stars
- Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842)
- Maria Mitchell (1818)
- Annie Jump Cannon (1863)
- Inge Lehmann (1888)
- Marie Tharp (1920)
- Yvonne Brill (1924)
- Sally Ride (1951)
- Medicine
- Anna Williams (1863)
- Alice Ball (1892)
- Gerti Radnitz Cori (1896)
- Helen Brooke Taussing (1898)
- Elsie Widdowson (1906)
- Virginia Apgar (1909)
- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910)
- Gertrude Elion (1918)
- Jane C. wright (1919)
- Biology and the environment
- Maria Sibylla Merian (1647)
- Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794)
- Mary Anning (1799)
- Ellen Swallow Richards (1842)
- Alice Hamilton (1869)
- Alice Evans (1881)
- Tilly Edinger (1897)
- Rachel Carson (1907)
- Ruth Patrick (1907)
- Genetics and development
- Nettie Stevens (1861)
- Hilde Mangold (1898)
- Charlotte Auerbach (1899)
- Barbara McClintock (1902)
- Salome G. Waelsch (1907)
- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909)
- Rosalind Franklin (1920)
- Anne McLaren (1927)
- Lynn Margulis (1938)
- Physics
- Emilie du Chatelet (1706)
- Lise Meitner (1878)
- Irene Juliot-Curie (1897)
- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906)
- Marguerite Perey (1909)
- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912)
- Rosalyn Yalow (1921)
- Math and technology
- Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718)
- Ada Lovelace (1815)
- Florence Nightingale (1820)
- Sophie Kowalevski (1850)
- Emmy Noether (1882)
- Mary Cartwright (1900)
- Grace Murray Hopper (1906)
- Invention
- Hertha Ayrton (1854)
- Hedy Lamarr (1913)
- Ruth Benerito (1916)
- Stephanie Kwolek (1923).