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:
Profiles thirty-three women whose lives and work changed the scientific world, from Grace Murray Hopper and her discovery of the first computer bug--a real moth that had gotten inside an old supercomputer--and attributed the term to Annie Jump Cannon, who studied the light of stars and classified about 400,000 stars in her lifetime.
Indexed by:
Booklist, 9/15/2016 Horn Book Guide, 10/2017 Publishers Weekly, 7/4/2016 School Library Journal, 9/2016
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