Magnificent Minds, 2nd edition: 17 Pioneering Women in Science and Medicine

by Pendred E. Noyce

Overview

Did you know that Florence Nightingale pioneered the use of statistics in public health? That Marie Curie is still the only person to have won the Nobel Prize in both physics and chemistry—and the only winner whose daughter also won a Nobel Prize? That in the 17th century, the most accomplished scholar in mathematical astronomy was a Polish woman, Maria Cunitz? Now includes a pioneer of laser eye surgery, Patricia Bath, and a new afterword about women's position in the sciences today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781943431649
Publisher:	Tumblehome, Inc.
Publication date:	03/15/2021
Series:	Magnificent Minds Series
Edition description:	Second edition
Pages:	150
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	12 - 18 Years

About the Author

Pendred Noyce is a physician, writer, and advocate for science education. She is the author of 14 fiction and non-fiction books for children.

Table of Contents

Foreword 7

Acknowledgments 8

Introduction 9

1 Midwife to the Queen Louise Bourgeois Boursier 13

2 Figuring the Stars Maria Cunitz 19

3 Chemistry for Women Marie Meurdrac 25

4 A Physicist of Bologna Laura Bassi 31

5 A Loom that Weaves Numbers Augusta Ada Byron Countess Lovelace 37

6 Health Care Researcher and Statistician Florence Nightingale 45

7 Through a Different Door Mary Putnam Jacobi 55

8 The Exalted and Mysterious Science Sophie Kovalevskaya 65

9 Radioactivity and the First Woman Nobelist Marie Sklodowska Curie 73

10 The Physics of Fissson Lise Meitner 85

11 A Founder of Abstract Algebra Emmy Noether 95

12 Jumping Genes Barbara McClintock 101

13 Languages of the Admiral Grace Murray Hopper 109

14 The Mystery of Crystals Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin 117

15 Beta Decay Chien-Shiung Wu 125

16 Inventing Medicines Gertrude B. Elion 131

17 The Right to Sight Patricia Bath 139

Afterword 147

Further Reading 149