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Nickel, Sandra.
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Simpson, Joanne -- Juvenile literature.
Meteorologists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women scientists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Clouds -- Thermodynamics -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Gender identity -- Juvenile literature.
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Nickel, Sandra.
Simpson, Joanne -- Juvenile literature.
Meteorologists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women scientists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Clouds -- Thermodynamics -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Gender identity -- Juvenile literature.
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Breaking through the clouds : the sometimes turbulent life of meteorologist Joanne Simpson / written by Sandra Nickel ; illustrated by Helena Pérez García.
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Nickel, Sandra.
Abrams Books for Young Readers, c2022.
Call #:
551
.5092
S613ni
Subjects
Simpson, Joanne -- Juvenile literature.
Meteorologists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women scientists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Clouds -- Thermodynamics -- Juvenile literature.
Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Gender identity -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9781419749568
1419749560
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
Joanne Simpson made groundbreaking or should we say cloudbreaking discoveries about weather and how it worked. Born in Massachusetts in 1923, she became interested in clouds while sailing in Cape Cod. As a young adult, she went to the University of Chicago and began studying and then teaching meteorology. After the war, women were expected to go back to being homemakers, but Joanne instead received her Masters Degree and began a PhD program. She decided to focus on tropical cumulous clouds, even though at the time no one thought that clouds affected the weather they thought they were just a byproduct. Though the scientific establishment mostly men tried to stop her at every turn, her stubborn determination prevailed. She was the first woman in the United States to receive her PhD in meteorology, and her discoveries still affect how we think about clouds and the weather today!
Audience:
Ages 6 to 9. Abrams Books for Young Readers.
Genre:
Biography, Juvenile.
Other authors:
Pérez García, Helena.
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