Trailblazers :

By: Swaby, Rachel [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2016]Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 195 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780399553967; 9780399554186; 0399553967; 9780399554162; 0399554165Subject(s): Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | Women inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature | Women inventors | Women scientistsGenre/Form: Biography. | Juvenile works. LOC classification: Q141 | .S925 2016
Contents:
Technology and invention: Ada Lovelace ; Hertha Ayrton ; Hedy Lamarr ; Ruth Benerito ; Stephanie Kwolek ; Grace Murray Hopper -- The Earth and stars: Maria Gaetana Agnesi ; Maria Mitchell ; Emmy Noether ; Sophie Kowalevski ; Annie Jump Cannon ; Marguerite Perey ; Marie Tharp ; Yvonne Brill ; Sally Ride -- Health and medicine: Ellen Swallow Richards ; Anna Wessels Williams ; Alice Hamilton ; Alice Ball ; Helen Taussig ; Elsie Widdowson ; Virginia Apgar ; Jane Wright ; Florence Nightingale -- Biology: Maria Sibylla Merian ; Jeanne Villepreux-Power ; Mary Anning ; Barbara McClintock ; Rachel Carson ; Ruth Patrick ; Rita Levi-Montalcini ; Rosalind Franklin ; Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
Summary: A collection of profiles of some of history's most fascinating female scientists.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-189) and index.

Technology and invention: Ada Lovelace ; Hertha Ayrton ; Hedy Lamarr ; Ruth Benerito ; Stephanie Kwolek ; Grace Murray Hopper -- The Earth and stars: Maria Gaetana Agnesi ; Maria Mitchell ; Emmy Noether ; Sophie Kowalevski ; Annie Jump Cannon ; Marguerite Perey ; Marie Tharp ; Yvonne Brill ; Sally Ride -- Health and medicine: Ellen Swallow Richards ; Anna Wessels Williams ; Alice Hamilton ; Alice Ball ; Helen Taussig ; Elsie Widdowson ; Virginia Apgar ; Jane Wright ; Florence Nightingale -- Biology: Maria Sibylla Merian ; Jeanne Villepreux-Power ; Mary Anning ; Barbara McClintock ; Rachel Carson ; Ruth Patrick ; Rita Levi-Montalcini ; Rosalind Franklin ; Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.

A collection of profiles of some of history's most fascinating female scientists.

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