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Author:
Noyce, Pendred, author
Title:
Magnificent minds : sixteen remarkable women of science and medicine / Pendred Noyce
Publisher:
Tumblehome LearningInc.,
Copyright Date:
2015
Description:
140 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Subject:
Women in medicine--Juvenile literature
Women in science--Juvenile literature
Women medical scientists--Juvenile literature--Juvenile literature
Women scientists--Juvenile literature--Juvenile literature
Biography.
Juvenile works.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-140)
Contents:
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 -- 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 -- Further Reading
Summary:
"...Introduces the lives, sayings, and dreams of sixteen women over four centuries and chronicles their contributions to mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronomy, computer science, and medicine."--Amazon.com
ISBN:
0989792471
9780989792479
Locations:
EYPC755 -- Kingsley Public Library (Kingsley)
GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)

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