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Nobel Prize women in science : their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries
- Title
- Nobel Prize women in science : their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries / Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
- Author
- McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch.
- Publication
- Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1998.
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| Text | Request in advance | Q141 .M358 1998 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 451 pages : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm
- Summary
- Since 1901 these have been over three hundred recipients of the Nobel Prize in the sciences. Only ten of them - about 3 percent - have been women. Why?
- In this updated version of Nobel Prize Women in Science, Sharon Bertsch McGrayne explores the reasons for this astonishing disparity by examining the lives and achievements of fifteen women scientists who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel Prize-winning project. The book reveals the relentless discrimination these women faced both as students and as researchers. Their success was due to the fact that they were passionately in love with science.
- Subjects
- Note
- "A Citadel Press book."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-431) and index.
- Contents
- 1. A Passion for Discovery -- First Generation Pioneers. 2. Marie Sklodowska Curie. 3. Lise Meitner. 4. Emmy Noether -- Second Generation. 5. Gerty Radnitz Cori. 6. Irene Joliot-Curie. 7. Barbara McClintock. 8. Maria Goeppert Mayer. 9. Rita Levi-Montalcini. 10. Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin. 11. Chien-Shiung Wu. 12. Gertrude Elion. 13. Rosalind Franklin. 14. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- The New Generation. 15. Jocelyn Bell Burnell. 16. Christiane Nusslein-Volhard.
- ISBN
- 0806520256 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 98039490
- OCLC
- ocm39633911
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries