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Author Swaby, Rachel, author.

Title Trailblazers : 33 women in science who changed the world / Rachel Swaby.

Publication Info. New York : Delacorte Press, [2016]

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 920.1 SWABY    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Children's Department  J BIO WOMEN'S HISTORY    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 509.22 SWA    Check Shelf
 East Hartford, Wickham Branch Library - Young Adult  YA 509.22 S    Check Shelf
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Young Adult  YA 509.22 SWA    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 509.2 SWABY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Children's Department  J 509.22 SWABY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J509.22 SWA    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  JBC SWA    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 195 pages ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [171]-189) and index.
Contents Technology and invention: Ada Lovelace ; Hertha Ayrton ; Hedy Lamarr ; Ruth Benerito ; Stephanie Kwolek ; Grace Murray Hopper -- The Earth and stars: Maria Gaetana Agnesi ; Maria Mitchell ; Emmy Noether ; Sophie Kowalevski ; Annie Jump Cannon ; Marguerite Perey ; Marie Tharp ; Yvonne Brill ; Sally Ride -- Health and medicine: Ellen Swallow Richards ; Anna Wessels Williams ; Alice Hamilton ; Alice Ball ; Helen Taussig ; Elsie Widdowson ; Virginia Apgar ; Jane Wright ; Florence Nightingale -- Biology: Maria Sibylla Merian ; Jeanne Villepreux-Power ; Mary Anning ; Barbara McClintock ; Rachel Carson ; Ruth Patrick ; Rita Levi-Montalcini ; Rosalind Franklin ; Rosalyn Sussman Yalow.
Audience 010+.
Summary "A collection of profiles of some of history's most fascinating female scientists."-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women inventors -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women scientists.
Women inventors.
Women inventors. (OCoLC)fst01178065
Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Other Form: Online version: Swaby, Rachel, author. Trailblazers. New York : Delacorte Press, [2016] 9780399554179 (DLC) 2016004775
ISBN 9780399553967 (hardcover)
0399553967 (hardcover)
9780399554162 (library binding)
0399554165 (library binding)
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