Nobel Prize Women in Science : Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries

Name: Nobel Prize Women in Science : Their Lives, Struggles and Momentous Discoveries
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ISBN: 9780806520254

ISBN-10: 0806520256

ISBN-13: 9780806520254

Edition: 1999 (Revised)

Authors: Sharon B. McGrayne

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This updated edition includes the additional story of the most recent woman Nobelist: Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, one of the few women leaders of German science today. The book takes a revealing look into the history of science.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Carol Publishing Group
Binding: Paperback
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Author to Reader	p. ix
Introduction	p. xiii
A Passion for Discovery	p. 3
First Generation Pioneers
Marie Sklodowska Curie	p. 11
Lise Meitner	p. 37
Emmy Noether	p. 64
Second Generation
Gerty Radnitz Cori	p. 93
Irene Joliot-Curie	p. 117
Barbara McClintock	p. 144
Maria Goeppert Mayer	p. 175
Rita Levi-Montalcini	p. 201
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin	p. 225
Chien-Shiung Wu	p. 255
Gertrude Elion	p. 280
Rosalind Franklin	p. 304
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow	p. 333
The New Generation
Jocelyn Bell Burnell	p. 359
Christiane Nusslein-Volhard	p. 380
Afterword	p. 409
Notes	p. 411
Index	p. 433
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