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Nobel Prize women in science : their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries / Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.
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McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch
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English
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Rev. ed.
Published/Created
Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1998.
Description
xi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Q141 .M358 1998
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Women Nobel Prize winners
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Biography
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Women scientists
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Biography
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Women scientists
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Awards
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Science
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Awards
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Nobel Prizes
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Women
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Women
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Biographies
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Summary note
Only nine of the more than 300 Nobel prizes awarded in science since 1901 have been won by women, notes science writer Bertsch as she sets the context for the biographical essays that follow. Examining the careers and lives of 14 women scientists "who either won a Nobel Prize or played a crucial role in a Nobel winning project," she movingly depicts their battles against gender discrimination for recognition and respect and she describes the self-conflict about their roles. Subjects range from Marie Curie (1867-1934) to such contemporaries as Rosalyn Yalow, awarded a Nobel Prize in 1977 for her work as a medical physicist, and Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist credited, at the age of 24, with the 1968 discovery of pulsars, who made large personal sacrifices for her science.
Notes
"A Birch Lane Press book."
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-431) and index.
Contents
A passion for discovery
First generation pioneers. Marie Skłodowska Curie
Lise Meitner
Emmy Noether
Second generation. Gerty Radnitz Cori
Irène Joliot-Curie
Barbara McClintock
Maria Goeppert Mayer
Rita Levi-Montalcini
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
Chien-Shiung Wu
Gertrude Elion
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
The new generation. Jocelyn Bell Burnell
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard.
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ISBN
0806520256 ((pbk.))
9780806520254 ((pbk.))
0970225601
9780970225603
0309072700
9780309072700
LCCN
98039490
OCLC
39633911
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