Nobel Prize women in science : their lives, struggles, and momentous discoveries / Sharon Bertsch McGrayne.

Author
McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch [Browse]
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
Rev. ed.
Published/​Created
Secaucus, N.J. : Carol Pub. Group, 1998.
Description
xi, 451 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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    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.
    ISBN
    • 0806520256 ((pbk.))
    • 9780806520254 ((pbk.))
    • 0970225601
    • 9780970225603
    • 0309072700
    • 9780309072700
    LCCN
    98039490
    OCLC
    39633911
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