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Noyce, Pendred E.
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Women in medicine.
Women in science.
Women medical scientists -- Biography.
Women scientists -- Biography.
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Noyce, Pendred E.
Women in medicine.
Women in science.
Women medical scientists -- Biography.
Women scientists -- Biography.
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Magnificent minds : 17 pioneering women in science and medicine / Pendred Noyce.
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Noyce, Pendred E.
Tumblehome, Inc., c2020.
Call #:
509
.252
N949m
2020
Subjects
Women in medicine.
Women in science.
Women medical scientists -- Biography.
Women scientists -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781943431649 (sc)
1943431647 (sc)
Alternate title:
17 pioneering women in science and medicine
Seventeen pioneering women in science and medicine
Edition:
2nd edition.
Description:
150 pages: illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150).
Contents:
Midwife to the Queen : Louise Bourgeois Boursier -- Figuring the stars : Mara 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 statisticians : Florence Nightengale -- Through a different door : Mary Putnam Jacobi -- The exalted and mysterious science : Sophie Kovalevskaya -- Radioactivity 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 -- The right to sight : Patricia Bath.
Summary:
Introduces the lives, sayings, and dreams of seventeen women over four centuries and chronicles their contributions to mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, computer science, and medicine.
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Biographies.
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