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10 women who changed science and the world

text 10 women who changed science and the world

Summary
Whitlock and Evans introduce us to some of the women-- physicists, biologists, chemists, astronomers and doctors-- who helped to shape our world with their extraordinary breakthroughs and inventions. These scientists overcame significant obstacles... Read more
Contents

Foreword / Athene Donald -- Introduction -- 1. Virginia Apgar -- 2. Rachel Carson -- 3. Marie Curie -- 4. Gertrude Elion -- 5. Dorothy Hodgkin -- 6. Henrietta Leavitt -- 7. Rita Levi-Montalcini -- 8. Lise Meitner -- 9. Elsie Widdowson -- 10. Chen-Shiung Wu -- Glossary.

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xvi, 288 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Publisher
Diversion Books 2019

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 920 WHI in Adult Non-fiction Available

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