Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz -- Maria Gaetana Agnesi -- Frances E. Allen -- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson -- Mary Anning -- Virginia Apgar -- Anna Atkins -- Hertha Marks Ayrton -- Florence Augusta Merriam Bailey -- Sara Josephine Baker -- Clara Barton -- Laura Bassi -- Ruth Benedict -- Louise Blanchard Bethune -- Elizabeth H. Blackburn -- Elizabeth Blackwell -- Emily Blackwell -- Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton -- Linda B. Buck -- Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- Annie Jump Cannon -- Rachel Carson -- Margaret Chan -- Gabrielle-Emilie Chatelet -- Cornelia Maria Clapp -- Johnnetta Cole -- Eileen Collins -- Anna Botsford Comstock -- Gerty Cori -- Elena Cornaro -- Marie Curie -- Lydia Maria Adams DeWitt -- Gertrude B. Elion -- Alice Evans -- Williamina Paton Stevens Fleming -- Alice Cunningham Fletcher -- Dian Fossey -- Rosalind Franklin -- Sophie Germain -- Lillian Evelyn Gilbreth -- Jane Goodall -- Temple Grandin -- Evelyn Granville -- Claudie Haignere -- Alice Hamilton -- Anna Jane Harrison -- Susan Helms -- Caroline Lucretia Herschel -- Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin -- Grace Hopper -- Libbie Henrietta Hyman -- Hypatia -- Lisa Jackson -- Mae Jemison -- Irene Joliot-Curie -- Ada King, Countess of Lovelace -- Yelena Kondakova -- Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya -- Hedy Lamarr -- Mary Douglas Leakey -- Henrietta Swan Leavitt -- Inge Lehmann -- Rita Levi-Montalcini -- Barbara Jane Liskov -- Jane Lubchenco -- Wangari Maathai -- Lynn Margulis -- Maria Goeppert Mayer -- Barbara McClintock -- Margaret Mead -- Lise Meitner -- Maria Sibylla Merian -- Maryam Mirzakhani -- Maria Mitchell -- Clelia Duel Mosher -- Florence Nightingale -- Emmy Noether -- Antonia Novello -- Christiane Nusslein-Volhard -- Ellen Ochoa -- Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin -- Dixy Lee Ray -- Ellen Swallow Richards -- Sally Ride -- Emily Warren Roebling -- Florence Rena Sabin -- Svetlana Yevgenyevna Savitskaya -- Ellen Churchill Semple -- Helen Sharman -- Mary Somerville -- Nettie Maria Stevens -- Kathryn Sullivan -- Helen Brooke Taussig -- Valentina Tereshkova -- Mary Watson Whitney -- Peggy Whitson -- Sunita Williams -- Chien-Shiung Wu -- Rosalyn Sussman Yalow -- Yi Soyeon -- Ada Yonath.
Summary
This book provides readers with brief biographies of women who have excelled in all areas of science, technology, engineering, and math.