She can STEM : 50 trailblazing women in science from ancient history to today
Publication Information
Beverly, MA : Quarry Books, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 2024.
Physical Description
112 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary
She Can STEM highlights the curiosity, creativity, and perseverance of 50 leading historical and modern physicists, chemists, biologists, and ecologists, pairing each biography with a hands-on project.
Notes
"The content of this book was previously published in The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Biology for Kids (Quarry Books 2021), The KItchen Pantry Scientist Chemistry for Kids (Quarry Books 2022), The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Ecology for Kids (Quarry Books 2023) and The Kitchen Pantry Scientist Physics for Kids (Quarry Books 2022) by Liz Lee Heinecke."--Title page verso.
Contents
- Tapputi-Belatikallim (fragrance distillation)
- Maria Sibylla Merian (biological illustration/metamorphosis)
- Laura Bassi (air/electricity)
- Eunice Newton Foote (greenhouse gases)
- Fanny Hesse (agar growth median)
- Agnes Pockels (surface tension)
- Marie Curie (elemental extraction)
- Susan La Flesche Picotte (public health/houseflies)
- Mary Agnes Chase (agrostology/grasses)
- Ynés Mexía (plant collection/identification)
- Lise Meitner (nuclear fission)
- Alice Ball (organic separation)
- Gerty Cori (the Cori cycle)
- Katharine Burr Blodgett (thin films)
- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (star material)
- Dora Priaulx Henry (barnacles)
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer (nuclear shell model)
- Mary Golda Ross (aerospace engineering)
- Rachel Carson (environmental contaminants)
- Chien-Shiung Wu (symmetry)
- Anna Jane Harrison (organic compounds/ultraviolet light)
- Ruby Payne-Scott (sunspots)
- Rosalind Franklin (DNA structure)
- Margaret S. Collins (zoology/termites)
- Esther Lederberg (lambda phage/replica plating)
- Edith Flanigen (molecular sieves)
- Tu Youyou (medicinal plant compounds)
- June Almeida (coronaviruses/agglutination)
- Sylvia Earle (ocean research)
- Ada Yonath (ribosome structure)
- Wangari Maathai (Green Belt Movement)
- Patricia Bath (medical devices/cataract surgery)
- Christine Darden (aircraft wing design)
- Margaret Cairns Etter (crystallography)
- Valerie L. Thomas (illusion transmitter)
- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (pulsars)
- Linda Buck (olfactory chemistry)
- Robin Wall Kimmerer (plant ecology/traditional knowledge)
- Dana Bergstrom (Antarctic research)
- Aparajita Datta (seed dispersal)
- Lisa Schulte Moore (prairie strips)
- Nadya Mason (conductivity/carbon)
- Danielle Lee (pattern recognition/science communication)
- Raychelle Burks (colorimetric sensors)
- Lesley de Souza (conservation biology)
- Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (marine conservation/public policy)
- Jodie Darquea Arteaga (bycatch reduction)
- Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (cosmology)
- Rae Wynn-Grant (carnivore ecology/animal behavior)
- Burc̦in Mutlu-Pakdil (galaxies)
Subjects
- Women scientists > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women in science > Juvenile literature.
- Women in technology > Juvenile literature.
- Women engineers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Technology > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Science > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Mathematicians > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- Women scientists > Biography.
- Women in science.
- Women in technology.
- Women engineers > Biography.
- Women mathematicians > Biography.
- Technology > Biography.
- Science > Biography.
- Mathematicians > Biography.