Women and Science Social Impact and Interaction

Name: Women and Science Social Impact and Interaction
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ISBN: 9780813537375

ISBN-10: 0813537371

ISBN-13: 9780813537375

Edition: 2005

Authors: Suzanne Sheffield

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For generations, aspiring women scientists have looked to Marie Curie, the famed Nobel Prize–winning chemist, for inspiration. But what lesson, exactly, are they to draw from her example? Marie Curie was exceptional, but she was ordinary as well. She faced all the trials and tribulations shared by women of her time; furthermore, she had to contend with the barriers against women’s wider participation in educational institutions, in scientific practice, and professional attainments and rewards. Indeed, her struggles and failures tell us more about the fate of women in the sciences, historically, than her achievements ever will.From Maria Winkelman’s discovery of the comet of 1702 to the…

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List price: $49.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 9/29/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.00" wide x 10.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.672
Language: English