Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Medicine
Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842-1906) 3
Anna Wessels Williams (1863-1954) 7
Alice Ball (1892-1916) 11
Gerry Radnitz Cori (1896-1957) 14
Helen Taussig (1898-1986) 19
Elsie Widdowson (1906-2000) 23
Virginia Apgar (1909-1974) 27
Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin (1910-1994) 32
Gertrude Belle Elion (1918-1999) 36
Jane Wright (1919-2013) 41
Biology and the Environment
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) 47
Jeanne Villepreux-Power (1794-1871) 51
Mary Anning (1799-1847) 54
Ellen Swallow Richards. (1842-1911) 57
Alice Hamilton (1869-1970) 61
Alice Evans (1881-1975) 67
Tilly Edinger (1897-1967) 70
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) 75
Ruth Patrick (1907-2013) 80
Genetics and Development
Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) 85
Hilde Mangold (1898-1924) 88
Charlotte Auerbach (1899-1994) 91
Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) 95
Salome Gluecksohn Waeisch (1907-2007) 100
Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) 104
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) 108
Anne McLaren (1927-2007) 113
Lynn Margulis (1938-2011) 116
Physics
Émilie du Châtelet (1706-1749) 121
Lise Meitner (1878-1968) 125
Irene Joliot-Curie (1897-1956) 130
Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) 135
Marguerite Perey (1909-1975) 139
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) 143
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow (1921-2011) 147
Earth and Stars
Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) 155
Annie Jump Cannon (1863-1941) 158
Inge Lehmann (1888-1993) 161
Marie Tharp (1920-2006) 165
Yvonne Brill (1924-2013) 169
Sally Ride (1951-2012) 173
Math and Technology
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799) 179
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) 182
Florence Nightingale (1820-1910) 186
Sophie Kowalevski (1850-1891) 189
Emmy Noether (1882-1935) 194
Mary Cartwright (1900-1998) 199
Grace Murray Hopper (1906-1992) 203
Invention
Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) 209
Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) 213
Ruth Benerito (1916-2013) 219
Stephanie Kwolek (1923-2014) 222
Acknowledgments 225
Notes 227
Bibliography 245
Index 265