A to Z of women in science and math / Lisa Yount.

Author/creator Yount, Lisa
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York, NY : Facts on File, ©1999.
Descriptionxvii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Women scientists--Biography. --Encyclopedias.
Women mathematicians--Biography. --Encyclopedias.

Portion of title Women in science and math
SeriesFacts on File library of world history
Facts on File library of world history. ^A462821
Contents Maria Agnesi -- Agnodice -- Deborah Ajakaiye -- Hattie Alexander -- Betsy Ancker-Johnson -- Aba A. Andam -- Elda Anderson -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -- Mary Anning -- Virginia Apgar -- Hertha Ayrton -- Florence Bailey -- Florence Bascom -- Laura Bassi -- Natalia Petrovna Bechtereva -- Susan Burnell -- Ruth Fulton Benedict -- Isobel Bennett -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Katharine Burr Blodgett -- Margaret Boden -- Mary Katharine Layne Brandegee -- Harriet Brooks -- Eleanor Margaret Peachey Burbidge -- Annie Cannon -- Emma Carr -- Rachel Carson -- Emilie du Chatelet -- Eugenie Clark -- Cleopatra the Alchemist -- Jewel Plummer Cobb.
Contents Theodora Colborn -- Gerty Cori -- Erika Cremer -- Marie Curie -- Ingrid Daubechies -- Gladys Rowena Henry Dick -- Mildred Dresselhaus -- Nicole Duplaix -- Sylvia Earle -- Alice Eastwood -- Bernice Eddy -- Johanna Edinger -- Sylvia Edlund -- Gertrude Elion -- Alice Evans -- Sandra Moore Faber -- Stella Fawcett -- Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming -- Irmgard Flugge-Lotz -- Dian Fossey -- Melissa Franklin -- Rosalind Franklin -- Uta Aunernhammer Frith -- Birute M.F. Galdikas -- Julia Gardner -- Hilda Geiringer -- Margaret Geller -- Marie Germain -- Lillian Gilbreth -- Jane Goodall -- Alice Hamilton.
Contents Harriet Boyd Hawes -- Elizabeth Hazen -- Caroline Herschel -- Hildegarde of Bingen -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Grace Brewster Murray Hopper -- Karen Danielsen Horney -- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Ida Hyde -- Libbie Hyman -- Hypatia -- Suzanne Ildstad -- Shirley Jackson -- Jacoba Felicie -- Mae Jemison -- Irene Joliot-Curie -- Marie Jorge-Padua -- Frances Oldham Kelsey -- Mary-Claire King -- Maria Winkelmann Kirch -- Melanie Reizes Klein -- Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaia -- Christine Ladd-Franklin -- Mary Leakey -- Henrietta Leavitt -- Inge Lehmann -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Jerre Levy -- Julia Levy -- Kathleen Yardley Lonsdale -- Susan Love.
Contents Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace -- Wangari Muta Maathai -- Barbara McClintock -- Karen Cook McNally -- Lydia Phindile Makhubu -- Lynn Alexander Margulis -- Maria the Jewess -- Philippa Marrack -- Polly Matzinger -- Antonia Caetana Maury -- Maria Gertrude Goeppert Mayer -- Margaret Mead -- Lise Meitner -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Ynes Enriquetta Julietta Mexia -- Maria Mitchell -- Cathleen Synge Morawetz -- Ann Haven Morgan -- Cynthia Moss -- Helen Alma Newton Turner -- Margaret Morse Nice -- Emmy Noether -- Constance Tom Noguchi -- Antonia Coello Novello -- Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall -- Roseli Ocampo-Friedmann -- Tomoko Ohta -- Ruth Patrick -- Francine Patterson -- Katharine Boynton Payne -- Cecilia Helena Payne-Gaposchkin.
Contents Marguerite Catherine Perey -- Candace Beebe Pert -- Edith Hinkley Quimby -- Helen Rhoda Arnold Quinn -- R. Rajalakshmi -- Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards -- Julia Bowman Robinson -- Vera Cooper Rubin -- Florence Rena Sabin -- Katsuko Saruhashi -- Charlotte Angas Scott -- Florence Barbara Seibert -- Joanne Malkus Simpson -- Idah Sithole-Niang -- Maud Caroline Slye -- Mary Fairfax Somerville -- Nettie Maria Stevens -- Alice Stewart -- Sarah Stewart -- Helen Taussig -- Trotula of Salerno -- Cindy Lee Van Dover -- Elisabeth Vrba -- Nancy Sabin Wexler -- Anna Johnson Pell Wheeler -- Anna Wessels Williams -- Flossie Wong-Staal -- Jane Cooke Wright -- Dorothy Maud Wrinch -- Chien-shiung Wu -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Kutlu Aslihan Yener -- Zhao Yufen.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 98046093
ISBN0816037973 (alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks Q141 .Y675 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold