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Author Ignotofsky, Rachel, 1989- author.

Title Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world / written and illustrated by Rachel Ignotofsky.

Publication Info. New York : Ten Speed Press, [2016]
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Edition First edition.
Description 127 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 122-123) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Hypatia (350 CE-370 -415 CE ) -- Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) -- Wang Zhenyi (1768-1797) -- Mary Anning (1799-1847) -- Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) -- Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910) -- Hertha Ayrton (1854-1923) -- Karen Horney (1885-1952) -- Nettie Stevens (1861-1912) -- Florence Bascom (1862-1945) -- Marie Curie (1867-1934) -- Mary Agnes Chase (1869-1963) -- Timeline -- Lise Meitner (1878-1968) -- Lillian Gilbreth (1878-1972) -- Emmy Noether (1882-1935) -- Edith Clarke (1883-1959) -- Marjory Stoneman Douglas (1890-1998) -- Alice Ball (1892-1916) -- Gerty Cori (1896-1957) -- Joan Beauchamp Procter (1897-1931) -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin (1900-1979) -- Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) -- Maria Goeppert Mayer (1906-1972) -- Grace Hopper (1906-1992) -- Rachel Carson (1907-1964) -- Lab tools -- Rita Levi-Montalcini (1909-2012) -- Dorothy Hodgkin (1910-1994) -- Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) -- Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000) -- Mamie Phipps Clark (1917-1983) -- Gertrude Elion (1918-1999) -- Katherine Johnson (1918- ) -- Jane Cooke Wright (1919-2013) -- Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) -- Rosalyn Yalow (1921-2011) -- Esther Lederberg (1922-2006) -- Statistics in stem -- Vera Rubin (1928- ) -- Annie Easley (1933-2011) -- Jane Goodall (1934- ) -- Sylvia Earle (1935- ) -- Valentina Tereshkova (1937- ) -- Patricia Bath (1942- ) -- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard (1942- ) -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943- ) -- Sau Lan Wu (194?- ) -- Elizabeth Blackburn (1948- ) -- Katia Krafft (1942-1991) -- Mae Jemison (1956- ) -- May-Britt Moser (1963- ) -- Maryam Mirzakhani (1977- ) -- More women in science.
Summary A collection of artworks inspired by the lives and achievements of fifty famous women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, from the ancient world to the present, profiles each notable individual.
Language Text in English.
Subject Women scientists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Women scientists. (OCoLC)fst01178507
Women scientists -- Biography.
SCIENCE -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION -- Biography & Autobiography -- Women.
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
Biographies.
Added Title Women in science : fifty fearless pioneers who changed the world
Other Form: Online version: Ignotofsky, Rachel, 1989- Women in science. First edition. New York : Ten Speed Press, [2016] 9781607749776 (DLC) 2016008638
ISBN 9781607749769 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
1607749769 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
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