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Notable Women in the Physical Sciences A Biographical Dictionary
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Benjamin F. Shearer, Barbara S. Shearer
Book Code: GR9303
ISBN: 0-313-29303-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29303-0
496 pages, photographs
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/1997
List Price: $69.95 (UK Sterling Price: £39.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This resource presents biographical essays of 96 female scientists with an emphasis on 20th-century figures.... The biographies are well written and enhanced by 47 black-and white-photographs. A highly useful inclusion for high school students.
    —
    School Library Journal
  • This highly readable book should benefit its intended audience of high school students and adults. It fills a need in small collections...Recommended.
    —The Book Report
Description: Notable Women in the Physical Sciences features substantive biographical essays on 96 world and American women scientists who have made significant contributions to the physical sciences from antiquity to the present. The essays go beyond the basic facts found in standard biographical dictionaries, bringing to life the women's developmental influences, the obstacles they faced and overcame, and their efforts to contribute to their chosen professions in spite of sometimes overwhelming disapproval by the establishment. The emphasis is on 20th-century women, and many of the living scientists profiled contributed interviews and autobiographical statements that add a vital and unique element to their profiles. Entries have been written by 70 practicing scientists and researchers who explain the scientific work clearly, in terms familiar to general readers and high school students. Each entry provides a fact box outlining major life events, including educational and career milestones, and concludes with sources for further reading. Forty-seven photographs complement the text. Disciplines covered include astronomy, astrophysics, bacteriology, biochemistry, biophysics, cancer research, chemistry, nuclear physics, and physics. Subjects were selected on the basis of historical importance and recognition by awards such as the Garvan Medal, Annie J. Cannon Prize, Nobel Prize, MacArthur Foundation "Genius" award, and the National Medal of Science. Seen across time and discipline, these dedicated scientists will inspire young women pursuing careers in science.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Ida Barney
  • Laura Bassi
  • Ruth Mary Roan Benerito
  • Leonora Neuffer Bilger
  • Katharine Burr Blodgett
  • E. Margaret Burbidge
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Mary Letitia Caldwell
  • Annie Jump Cannon
  • Emma Perry Carr
  • Marjorie C. Caserio
  • Mildred Cohn
  • Gerty Cori
  • Marie Sklodowska Curie
  • Ingrid Daubechies
  • Allie Vibert Douglas
  • Helen M. Dyer
  • Helen T. Edwards
  • Gertrude Belle Elion
  • Sandra Moore Faber
  • Catherine Clarke Fenselau
  • Mary Fieser
  • Williamina Paton Fleming
  • Helen M. Free
  • Wendy Laurel Freedman
  • Catharine D. Garmany
  • Margaret Joan Geller
  • Ellen Gleditsch
  • Jenny Pickworth Glusker
  • Gertrude Scharff Goldhaber
  • Maria Goeppert-Mayer
  • Mary Lowe Good
  • Jeanette Grasselli (Brown)
  • Arda Alden Green
  • Doroty Anna Hahn
  • Heidi Hammel
  • Anna Jane Harrison
  • Margaret Harwood
  • Caroline Herschel
  • Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
  • E. Dorrit Hoffleit
  • Helen Sawyer Hogg
  • Icie Gertrude Macy Hoobler
  • Allene Rosalind Jeanes
  • Irène Joliot-Curie
  • Madeleine M. Joullié
  • Isabella L. Karle
  • Joyce Jacobson Kaufman
  • Vera E. Kistiakowsky
  • Henrietta Swan Leavitt
  • Leona Woods Marshall Libby
  • Pauline Beery Mack
  • Margaret Eliza Maltby
  • Ines Mandl
  • Antonia Maury
  • Grace Medes
  • Lise Meitner
  • Miriam the Alchemist
  • Maria Mitchell
  • Agnes Fay Morgan
  • Dorothy Virginia Nightingale
  • Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin
  • Mary Engle Pennington
  • Marguerite Perey
  • Gertrude E. Perlmann
  • Mary Locke Petermann
  • Lucy Weston Pickett
  • Helen W. Dodson Prince
  • Kamal J. Ranadive
  • Sara H. Ratner
  • Ellen Swallow Richards
  • Jane Richardson
  • Dorothea Klumpke Roberts
  • Elizabeth Roemer
  • Nancy Grace Roman
  • Vera Cooper Rubin
  • Florence B. Seibert
  • Mary Lura Sherrill
  • Vandana Shiva
  • Jean'ne Marie Shreeve
  • Sofia Simmonds
  • Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly
  • Mary Fairfax Somerville
  • Betty Sullivan
  • Henrietta Hill Swope
  • Paula Szkody
  • Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley
  • Marjorie Jean Young Vold
  • Emma T.R. Williams Vyssotsky
  • Elizabeth Amy Kreiser Weisburger
  • Sarah Frances Whiting
  • Lee Anne M. Willson
  • Chien-Shiung Wu
  • Rosemary Wyse
  • Xide Xie
  • Judith Sharn Young
  • Appendix I: Scientists by Profession
  • Appendix II: Scientists by Honors and Awards
  • Index
LC Card Number: 96-9024
LCC Class: Q141
Dewey Class: 500
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