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Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First Diversion Books edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 288 pages, illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten Women Who Changed Science tells the moving stories of the physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions, and outlines their remarkable achievements.These scientists overcame significant obstacles, often simply because they were women their science and their lives were driven by personal tragedies and shaped by seismic world events. What drove these...
2) Figuring
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 578 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This brand-new series highlights some of the major contributions women have made in the world of science. Women have led the way in learning about the living things with which we share the planet. They have discovered dinosaur fossils and the tools made by our earliest ancestors, and were among the pioneers of the study of insects. They have spent years living with chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans in order to better understand the connections...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Female scientists, doctors, and engineers experienced independence and responsibility during the First World War. Suffragists including Virginia Woolf's sister, Ray Strachey, aligned themselves with scientific and technological progress, and mobilized women to enter conventionally male domains such as engineering and medicine. Profiles include mental health pioneer Isabel Emslie, chemist and co-inventor of tear gas Martha Whiteley, Scottish army doctor...
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