Magnificent minds : sixteen remarkable women of science and medicine

Noyce, Pendred, author.

2015, Book , 140 pages :

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Publication information:	Boston, Massachusetts : Tumblehome Learning, Inc., [2015]
Copyright:	©2015.
ISBN:	0989792471
ISBN:	9780989792479
Language:	English
Record ID:	3175358
Variant Title:	Sixteen remarkable women of science and medicine
Format:	Regular Print Book
Physical description:	140 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
Date acquired:	March 10, 2015
More creator details:	Pendred Noyce.
Contents note:	Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Midwife to the Queen, Louise Bourgeois Boursier -- Figuring the Stars, Maria Cunitz -- Chemistry for Women, Marie Meurdrac -- A Physicist of Bologna, Laura Bassi -- A Loom that Weaves Numbers, Augusta Ada Byron, Countess Lovelace -- Health Care Researcher and Statistician, Florence Nightingale -- Through a Different Door, Mary Putnam Jacobi -- The Exalted and Mysterious Science, Sophie Kovalevskaya -- Racioactivity and the First Woman Nobelist, Marie Sklodowska Curie -- The Physics of Fission, Lise Meitner -- A Founder of Abstract Algebra, Emmy Noether -- Jumping Genes, Barbara McClintock -- Languages of the Admiral, Grace Murray Hopper -- The Mystery of Crystals, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Beta Decay, Chien-Shiung Wu -- Inventing Medicines, Gertrude B. Elion -- Further Reading.

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