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Author:

Noyce, Pendred, author.

Title:

Remarkable minds : seventeen more pioneering women in science and medicine / Pendred Noyce.

Publisher:

Tumblehome LearningInc.,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

183 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, facsimiles, photographs ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Women in medicine
Women in science
Women medical scientists--Biography
Women scientists--Biography
Women--Biography
Young adult nonfiction

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183). SUPPRESSED

Contents:

Fire and living force : Émilie du Châtelet - Physics -- Reluctant prodigy : Maria Gaetana Agnesi - Mathematics -- Flesh and bones : Marie-Geneviève-Charlotte Thiroux d'Arconville - Chemistry -- The shimmering cloth : Elizabeth Fulhame - Chemistry -- Numbers and vibrating plates : Sophie Germain - Mathematics -- Electrical suffragette : Hertha Ayrton - Electrical engineering and physics -- Anatomical researcher : Florence Rena Sabin - Medical sciences-- Starburst traces of cosmic rays : Marietta Blau - Physics -- Energy cycle : Gerty Cori - Medicine and biochemistry -- Artificial radiation : Irène Joliot-Curie - Physics -- Saving blue babies : Helen Taussig - Medical sciences -- What stars are made of : Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin - Astronomy -- Nuclear shell model : Maria Goeppert Mayer - Physcis -- Nerve growth factor : Rita Levi-Montalcini - Neuroscience and medicine -- Chemotherapy pioneer : Jane Cooke Wright - Medical sciences -- From charcoal to viruses : Rosalind E. Franklin - Chemistry -- Antibodies for diagnosis : Rosalyn Sussman Yalow - Medical sciences.

Summary:

Profiles pioneering women in science and medicine, including Marietta Blau, Rita Levi-Montalcini, and Elizabeth Fulhame.

ISBN:

0990782905
9780990782902

LCCN:

2015907841

Locations:

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)